And the economic development of minority areas, what principles and policies have the party and the state adopted?

1. Further accelerate infrastructure construction and enhance the development potential of ethnic areas.

The state will adhere to differentiated treatment and classified guidance, further improve investment policies, and guide all kinds of investments to invest more in infrastructure construction in minority areas. It is necessary to increase the proportion of national construction funds invested in ethnic minority areas in a certain period of time and raise the investment subsidy standards for highway, railway, civil aviation, water conservancy and other construction projects.

2. Constantly expand industries with distinctive advantages and enhance the self-development ability of ethnic areas.

Developing industries with distinctive advantages is an important way to accelerate the development of ethnic areas. The state will take effective measures to support ethnic areas to accelerate the transformation of economic development mode, deepen the strategy of transforming superior resources, adhere to the road of new industrialization, and strive to form a new pattern of coordinated development of traditional advantageous industries, strategic emerging industries and modern service industries.

3. Vigorously develop social undertakings and support ethnic areas to safeguard and improve people's livelihood.

The state strongly supports ethnic minority areas to strengthen social construction focusing on improving people's livelihood and establish and improve a public service system covering urban and rural residents. Give priority to the development of education. Increase the transfer payment from the central government to rural compulsory education in ethnic minority areas and raise the level of rural compulsory education funds.

Actively and steadily promote the moderate concentration of running schools in agricultural and pastoral areas and remote areas. Accelerate the construction of rural boarding schools, and gradually improve the standard of living allowance for boarding students with financial difficulties in rural compulsory education. We will continue to implement the special post plan for rural compulsory education teachers and increase support for ethnic minority areas.

4. Continue to do a good job in poverty alleviation and development, and give priority to solving poverty problems in ethnic poverty-stricken areas.

We will further promote development-oriented poverty alleviation, gradually raise poverty alleviation standards, carry out immigration poverty alleviation in an orderly manner, and gradually realize the effective connection between the rural subsistence allowance system and poverty alleviation and development policies. Support pastoral areas and border areas where ethnic minorities are concentrated to carry out poverty alleviation and development, actively promote nomadic settlement and renovation projects of dilapidated houses, thatched houses and fork houses in rural pastoral areas, and effectively improve people's production and living conditions.

5. Accelerate the establishment and improvement of compensation mechanism for ecological protection and resource development, and promote the sustainable development of ethnic areas.

Strengthening ecological construction and environmental protection in ethnic areas is related to the ecological security of the country. The state will promptly establish and improve the compensation mechanism for ecological protection and resource development, and promote the overall improvement of the ecological environment in ethnic areas. Efforts will be made to promote the construction of northwest grassland desertification control area, loess plateau soil and water conservation area, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau river water conservation area, southwest rocky desertification control area and important forest ecological function area, and basically form a national ecological security barrier system.

6. Further accelerate the development of human resources and provide intellectual support for the accelerated development of ethnic areas.

Talent is the key to accelerating development. The state has thoroughly implemented the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and strengthening the country through talents, and supported ethnic minority areas to increase the development of human resources. Formulate and implement special plans for human resources development in ethnic areas. We will continue to implement key talent development projects such as counterpart support from eastern cities for talent training in the western region, counterpart training for civil servants, and innovative training for management talents in the western region.

Continue to implement the training plan for high-level backbone talents of ethnic minorities. Accelerate the construction of human resources market in ethnic areas, improve the ability of talent development and talent attraction service, and promote talent service.

7. Effectively strengthen national unity and create a good social environment for the accelerated development of ethnic areas.

National unity and social stability are important prerequisites and guarantees for accelerating the development of ethnic minorities and ethnic areas. We must strictly implement the ethnic policies of the party and the state, conscientiously implement the law on regional ethnic autonomy, and earnestly protect the legitimate rights and interests of ethnic minorities.

8. Accelerate the establishment and improvement of the guarantee mechanism to promote the development of ethnic minorities and ethnic areas.

It is a basic policy of the central government to support the accelerated development of ethnic minorities and ethnic areas, and it is also the primary task of promoting the large-scale development of the western region. Governments at all levels should put accelerating the development of ethnic minorities and ethnic minority areas in a more prominent strategic position, further establish and improve the working mechanism, improve relevant systems, and earnestly strengthen organizational leadership.

Extended data

China is a unified multi-ethnic country with a minority population of 1 100 million. Ethnic autonomous areas account for 64% of the total land area, and most of the western and border areas are inhabited by ethnic minorities.

This basic national condition determines that the development of ethnic minorities and ethnic areas plays an extremely important role in the overall economic and social development of our country. Accelerating the economic and social development of ethnic minorities and ethnic areas is the fundamental task for China to solve ethnic problems at this stage. It is not only related to the implementation of the overall strategy of regional development in China, but also to the realization of the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way. It is also related to national unity, social stability and border consolidation, and to the long-term stability of the country.

The party and the state have always attached great importance to accelerating the development of ethnic minorities and ethnic areas. Especially since the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao as the general secretary has put accelerating the economic and social development of ethnic minorities and ethnic areas in a more prominent position, made a series of major decisions and arrangements, and adopted a series of important measures.

One of the most prominent features of this series of major decision-making arrangements is to take development as the top priority, to support ethnic minorities and ethnic areas to accelerate development as a consistent policy, to focus on policies, funds and institutional mechanisms, and to take effective measures to promote scientific development and improve people's livelihood and achieve remarkable results.

China People's Congress Network-the State Council's Report on Accelerating the Economic and Social Development of Ethnic Minorities and Ethnic Areas