China News Service, Beijing, December 4 (Reporter Li Xuefeng) Xu Yousheng, the deputy head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, stated in Beijing on the 4th that whether the system of regional ethnic autonomy is good or not, the Chinese people have the most say.
The development and progress of ethnic areas, and the tangible data of people of all ethnic groups living a good life are the best and most resounding answers.
The State Council Information Office of China published the white paper "China's Democracy" and held a press conference on the same day.
A reporter asked that some foreign voices believe that the Chinese government has become more and more stringent in the management of ethnic minorities and that ethnic minorities have no real autonomy. What's your comment?
Xu Yousheng made the above remarks when answering questions.
He pointed out that the system of ethnic regional autonomy is a basic political system in China and an important institutional guarantee for the correct path to solving ethnic problems with Chinese characteristics.
The system of regional ethnic autonomy refers to the implementation of regional autonomy in areas where ethnic minorities live under the unified leadership of the state, the establishment of autonomous agencies, and the exercise of autonomy.
Up to now, China has established a total of 155 ethnic autonomous areas, including 5 autonomous regions, 30 autonomous prefectures, and 120 autonomous counties or autonomous flags.
The administrative area of ethnic autonomous areas accounts for 64% of the total area of the country.
Xu Yousheng pointed out that the fundamental purpose of implementing the system of ethnic regional autonomy is to maintain national unity and ethnic unity.
The organs of self-government in various ethnic autonomous areas are all first-level local governments under the leadership of the central government. They must obey the unified leadership of the central government to ensure the smooth flow of central government orders and the implementation of national laws and regulations.
On this basis, according to law, people of all ethnic groups shall be guaranteed to enjoy equal rights and fulfill equal obligations, support all ethnic groups to develop their economy, improve people's livelihood, achieve common development and common prosperity, and fully exercise their autonomy.
The autonomy of ethnic autonomous areas mainly includes: legislative power, economic development power, financial management power, the right to cultivate and use ethnic minority cadres, the right to develop education and culture, and the right to use languages.
He continued, taking the training and use rights of ethnic minority cadres as an example, the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government attach great importance to the training and use of ethnic minority cadres. After more than 70 years of hard work, we have created a grand ethnic minority with both integrity and ability The cadre team provides an important organizational guarantee for the implementation of the system of regional ethnic autonomy.
At present, in the standing committees of the people’s congresses of 155 ethnic autonomous areas, citizens of the ethnic groups that exercise regional autonomy are all serving as directors or deputy directors; Citizens of autonomous ethnic groups in ethnic regions will serve.
Xu Yousheng said that practice has proved that China's implementation of a system of ethnic regional autonomy is not only conducive to national unity, ethnic unity and social stability, but also conducive to the development and progress of ethnic minorities and the long-term stability of the country.
In the nine years from 2012 to 2020, the regional GDP of the five autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Tibet, Ningxia and Xinjiang and the three multi-ethnic provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Qinghai increased from 5.1 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below) to 10.4 trillion yuan; the per capita GDP increased from 27,000 yuan to 52,000 yuan; the urbanization rate increased from 43.1% to 55.1%.
All 31.21 million impoverished people in ethnic minority areas have been lifted out of poverty, and 420 state-level impoverished counties in ethnic autonomous areas have all taken their hats off, and together with the whole country, they have achieved a well-off society in an all-round way.
He said that the Chinese people have the best say in whether the system of regional ethnic autonomy is good or not.
The development and progress of ethnic areas, and the tangible data of people of all ethnic groups living a good life are the best and most resounding answers.
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