Abstract
Ever since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee, with General Secretary Xi Jinping at its centre, has focused heavily on ethnic minority work, convening forums on the subject in Tibet and Xinjiang in rapid succession, before ultimately convening a meeting about the general state of the central government’s work in this area in 2014. Xi gave several important speeches on topics including the inspection of ethnic minority areas, as well as various speeches made during the talks at the Lianghui (A term referring to the annual plenary sessions of the National People’s Congress and the National Committee of the CPC’s Political Consultative Conference) about related issues. These speeches did not merely constitute an integral part of Xi’s new ideas, (.The citations in this article are from Reference Book on the Spirit of the Central Conference on Ethnic Work, edited by the National Ethnic Affairs Bureau, National Publishing House, 2015; Books of Xi Jinping’s Series of Speeches: Creating New Glory of the Chinese Culture, People’s Daily, July 9th, 2014; Full Implementation of Party’s Ethnic and Religious Policies, Excerpts of Xi Jinping’s Speech on the Building of Socialist Politics, Central Party Literature Press, 2017) concepts and strategies for managing state affairs, but also established the guiding principle of ethnic minority work for the Party and the nation in a new historical condition. This article discusses and explores Xi’s ideas of ethnic minority work from different viewpoints and methods.
Highlights
Ethnic minority work is being conducted by the Communist Party of China(CPC) in accordance with Marxist-Leninist nation theory, uniting China’s many ethnic minorities and launching a hugely important body of work for both the Party and the nation as a whole
Learning, understanding and implementing Xi’s ideas for ethnic minority work require a comprehensive and thorough study of his new political scientific ideas, concepts and strategies. This is because ethnic minority work is not a separate, isolated field; it is an essential part of ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ as a whole: “Ethnic minority work involves everything,” it is argued, “and everything contains elements of ethnic minority work”
Since the 1990s, the vast majority of the world’s conflicts have been set against the national and international backgrounds of what may be generally described as ethnic affairs, as manifested in rapid succession by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Yugoslav wars, American racial conflict and Scotland’s bid for independence from the UK, not to mention the immigration issues that are troubling many Western countries or the challenges of so-called ‘political correctness’ within multiculturalism
Summary
Ethnic minority work is being conducted by the Communist Party of China(CPC) in accordance with Marxist-Leninist nation theory, uniting China’s many ethnic minorities and launching a hugely important body of work for both the Party and the nation as a whole. Xi gave several important speeches on topics including the inspection of ethnic minority areas, as well as various speeches made during the talks at the Lianghui about related issues These speeches did not merely constitute an integral part of Xi’s new ideas, concepts and strategies for managing state affairs, and established the guiding principle of ethnic minority work for the Party and the nation in a new historical condition. Learning, understanding and implementing Xi’s ideas for ethnic minority work require a comprehensive and thorough study of his new political scientific ideas, concepts and strategies This is because ethnic minority work is not a separate, isolated field; it is an essential part of ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ as a whole: “Ethnic minority work involves everything,” it is argued, “and everything contains elements of ethnic minority work”. Work, edited by the National Ethnic Affairs Bureau, National Publishing House, 2015; Books of Xi Jinping’s Series of Speeches: Creating New Glory of the Chinese Culture, People’s Daily, July 9th, 2014; Full Implementation of Party’s Ethnic and Religious Policies, Excerpts of Xi Jinping’s Speech on the Building of Socialist Politics, Central Party Literature Press, 2017
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