Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in Ethnic Minority Areas: Challenges, Problems and Countermeasures

Abstract

AbstractThe research team of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) has launched a study evaluating the progress of building a moderately prosperous society among ethnic minorities and in ethnic minority areas in China. The study is designed to better understand the development of ethnic minorities and the areas where they live since the beginning of the twenty-first century, particularly during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, to summarize the achievements and experience of the work on ethnic minorities by deeply analyzing its current circumstances and to put forward countermeasures and suggestions for the future economic development of ethnic minority areas and the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects by determining the reasons for difficulties in the economic development of ethnic minorities and ethnic minority areas. The study is mainly divided into the following aspects: the tremendous importance of accelerating the building of a moderately prosperous society among ethnic minorities and in ethnic minority areas, the overall evaluation, main progress and problems of building a moderately prosperous society in ethnic minority areas and the countermeasures and suggestions for the problems.