Ｃｈｉｎａ’ｓ　Ｐｏｌｉｃｙ　ｏｆ　Ｒｅｇｉｏｎａｌ　Ｅｔｈｎｉｃ　Ａｕｔｏｎｏｍｙ.docVIP

Ｃｈｉｎａ’ｓ　Ｐｏｌｉｃｙ　ｏｆ　Ｒｅｇｉｏｎａｌ　Ｅｔｈｎｉｃ　Ａｕｔｏｎｏｍｙ 　　Regional ethnic autonomy is the most important and fundamental ethnic policy of China. It is a great invention made by the Communist Party of China (CPC) by combining ethnic autonomy with regional autonomy. It fully embodies the principle of ethnic equality and cooperation. 　　History of the formation of China’s policy of regional ethnic autonomy 　　In the early 1920s after the CPC had just been founded, the Party adopted a Declaration at its Second National Congress. For the first time, the CPC put its advocacy for ethnic “autonomy” and ethnic “democratic autonomous federation”on a par with its advocacy for ethnic “self-determination” and the establishment of a “federal republic.” These were made the CPC’s basic program for resolving domestic ethnic issues. Thereafter, thanks to several decades of exploration, the CPC formulated in 1938 relatively systematic ideas about regional ethnic autonomy. In May 1941, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Area government worked out the Policy Program of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Area. According to the program, “In accordance with the principle of ethnic equality, the Mongolian, Han and Hui ethnic groups shall have equal political, economic and cultural rights and a Mongolia and Hui autonomous region shall be established.” In October 1945, the Central Committee Delegation of the CPC put forward in the Draft Program for Peaceful National Development, “In areas of ethnic minorities, the equal status of ethnic minorities and their autonomous right should be recognized.” On May 1, 1947, China’s first ethnic autonomous region (at provincial level ) of an ethnic minority - the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was established. At the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference held in September 1949 on the eve of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Common Program of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference was adopted. T