Are there no ethnic minorities in Guangdong?

Yes, Guangdong is a province with complete ethnic composition. According to the statistics of the fifth population census in 2000, there are 55 ethnic minorities in Guangdong Province besides the Han nationality. The population of ethnic minorities is 1.27 million, accounting for 1.47% of the total population of Guangdong Province, among which the population of Zhuang, Yao, Tujia, Miao and Dong is 1.066, 5438+0.537, accounting for 86% of the total population of ethnic minorities. The population of Baoan, De 'ang, Barrow, Yugur and Tatar is relatively small, accounting for only 0.0038% of the total population of ethnic minorities in Guangdong Province. There are three ethnic autonomous counties in Guangdong Province, namely Liannan Yao Autonomous County, Lianshan Zhuang Yao Autonomous County and Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, and seven ethnic townships, including Lianshui Yao Township in Lianzhou, Yaoan Yao Township in Yangshan County, Chengjiashui Yao Township in Shixing County, Xiashuai Zhuang Yao Township in Huaiji County, Lantian Yao Township in Longmen County and Zhangxi She Township in Dongyuan County. Among the 6,543,800+0.27 million ethnic minorities in Guangdong Province, there are about 600,000 registered residents, of whom about 200,000 live in 3 ethnic autonomous counties and 7 ethnic townships, about 6,543,800 live in cities, and the remaining 300,000 live in more than 380 village committees in more than 50 cities and counties. The resident population of ethnic minorities from other provinces who come to Guangdong to work, do business and engage in other activities is about 670,000, mainly distributed in large and medium-sized cities in the Pearl River Delta region such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan and Huizhou.

Since the reform and opening up, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government have attached great importance to ethnic work, conscientiously implemented the Party's ethnic policy, and actively adopted effective measures to promote the economic and social development of ethnic minorities and ethnic areas and promote national unity and progress.

Implement regional ethnic autonomy and guarantee the rights of ethnic minorities to be masters of their own affairs. Guangdong Province has earnestly implemented the system of regional ethnic autonomy, and has successively established three ethnic autonomous counties, namely Liannan, Lianshan and Ruyuan, and seven ethnic townships, including Chengjia Yao Township in Yangshan County. It has also formulated and promulgated Several Provisions on the Implementation of the Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy in Guangdong Province, Regulations on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Scattered Ethnic Minorities in Guangdong Province, Regulations on the Autonomy of Liannan Yao Autonomous County, Regulations on the Autonomy of Lianshan Zhuang Yao Autonomous County and Regulations on the Autonomy of Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, so as to legally protect the legitimate rights and interests of ethnic minorities. Guangdong Province has also vigorously trained ethnic minority cadres through universities, party schools at all levels and cadre training centers, and the number of ethnic minority cadres has been increasing. By 2000, there were more than 300 ethnic minority cadres in Guangdong Province, including more than 4,030 ethnic minority cadres in three ethnic autonomous counties, and the main leaders of the governments in three ethnic autonomous counties and seven ethnic townships were ethnic minority cadres. People's congresses and political consultative conferences at all levels in Guangdong Province have fully absorbed ethnic minorities to participate in and discuss state affairs. In 20001year, there were 282 representatives of ethnic minorities and 272 members of CPPCC in Guangdong people's congresses at all levels, accounting for more than 10% of the total population of the province.

Increase support and promote economic and social development in ethnic areas. In recent years, in order to speed up the development of ethnic minority areas, the Guangdong provincial government has taken measures such as increasing capital investment, financial transfer payment, counterpart support, labor export, and migration to help the development of ethnic minority areas. At the beginning of 1996, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government held a symposium on getting rid of poverty and becoming rich in ethnic areas during the Guangdong 10 mountain work conference, and formulated a series of preferential policies to support economic development in ethnic areas. And decided to allocate/kloc-0.50 billion yuan to help three ethnic autonomous counties and six ethnic townships solve financial arrears, relocate immigrants, popularize nine-year compulsory education and build key projects within two years. During the period of 1999, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government held a conference on ethnic work in Guangdong Province and issued the Opinions on Further Strengthening Ethnic Work in Guangdong Province. It is decided that the provincial finance will help the three ethnic autonomous counties to speed up the construction of national and provincial roads, and help ethnic areas develop hydropower, leading agricultural enterprises and tourism. In 2002, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government held a symposium on ethnic work in Guangdong Province and a conference on accelerating the development of mountainous areas in Guangdong Province, and put forward new policies and measures to implement the strategy of regional coordinated development and further accelerate the development of ethnic areas, increase support for ethnic areas, and help ethnic areas develop transportation, leading agricultural enterprises, tourism, education, medical and health care, etc. The specific measures are as follows: the provincial government owes more than 60 million yuan to the education funds of three ethnic autonomous counties; Free tuition and miscellaneous fees for minority students whose annual per capita net income is less than 1500 yuan; Give 3 ethnic autonomous counties 2 million yuan each and 7 ethnic townships 6.5438+0 million yuan each to support leading agricultural enterprises; Highway construction from autonomous counties to towns, counties to prefecture-level cities and urban areas shall be solved by the provincial government, except for highway land acquisition and demolition fees. Since 1996, 578 kilometers of new highways have been built in three ethnic autonomous counties; Construction of hydropower stations 175, with an installed capacity of 238,800 kilowatts; More than 30,000 immigrants from 6,000 households have improved the production and living conditions of ethnic minorities. 1996, the education of three ethnic autonomous counties has reached the "universal nine" standard; From 65438 to 0997, 66,000 ethnic minorities in three ethnic autonomous counties basically eliminated absolute poverty. In 2002, the gross domestic product of the three ethnic autonomous counties reached 2.034 billion yuan, an increase of 66.6% over 1995; The per capita annual net income in rural areas reached 2955 yuan, which was 1.995 times higher than 1.56 times. With the strong support of Party committees and governments at all levels in Guangdong Province, and through the hard work of cadres and masses in ethnic areas, the economy of ethnic minorities and ethnic areas in Guangdong Province has developed rapidly, and the lives of ethnic minorities have also been greatly improved.

Strengthen ethnic work in diaspora and cities, and promote the unity and progress of all ethnic groups. Since the reform and opening up, Guangdong Province has paid great attention to safeguarding the rights of scattered ethnic minorities in all aspects of political, economic and social life. For example, when electing deputies to the National People's Congress and arranging CPPCC members in places where there are many scattered ethnic minorities, we should pay attention to absorbing a certain proportion of ethnic minority representatives; In daily work, the relevant departments pay attention to the opinions of the scattered minority people and take care of their legitimate rights and interests; For ethnic minorities scattered in rural areas, the province and relevant cities and counties have formulated special measures to support their development. In recent years, with the development of reform and opening up and market economy, more and more ethnic minorities, especially those from other provinces, have entered cities in Guangdong Province, and urban ethnic work has become more and more important. In addition to actively guiding urban ethnic minorities to develop economy and culture, relevant departments in Guangdong Province also pay attention to coordinating ethnic relations, widely publicizing the Party's ethnic policies, carrying out various forms of ethnic unity and progress activities, educating cadres and masses of all ethnic groups to correctly treat ethnic issues, properly handling ethnic disputes, helping foreign ethnic minorities solve difficulties, correcting discrimination against ethnic minorities, safeguarding their legitimate rights and interests, strengthening population management of foreign ethnic minorities, promoting ethnic unity and maintaining social stability. For example, the governments of Guangdong Province and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region jointly issued an announcement to strengthen the management of ethnic minorities in Guangdong and Xinjiang, and earnestly safeguard their rights and interests; 1999 Guangzhou issued a special notice on the problem that individual hotels do not accept mainland ethnic minorities, requiring hotels, hotels and service departments to implement ethnic policies and warmly receive ethnic minorities from Guangzhou. For all kinds of emergencies involving ethnic relations, the relevant departments of Guangdong Province strictly follow the ethnic policy, fully take care of the legitimate rights and interests of ethnic minorities, and handle them properly in time. Guangdong Province also pays attention to helping the people of 10 ethnic minorities who believe in Islam to arrange religious activities reasonably, solve the problem of Muslim diet and properly handle the funeral problems of Muslim people.

Carry out national unity and progress activities to promote the development of national unity and progress. In recent years, according to the work arrangements of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the needs of its own work, Guangdong Province has actively organized various forms of national unity and progress activities to promote the development of national unity. In September, 20001year, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Ministry of Culture jointly held a national cultural performance for ethnic minorities in Beijing, and Guangdong Province carefully organized a team to rehearse the program, which achieved good results. In the second half of 2002, in order to cooperate with the National Ethnic Affairs Commission and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to hold a national ethnic knowledge TV contest and publicize the party's ethnic policies and knowledge to the broad masses of cadres and people, Guangdong Province held an ethnic knowledge prize-winning contest, which received more than 5,000 responses, so that more people in the society had a better understanding of the party's ethnic policies and knowledge. At the same time, Guangdong Province successfully held the first and second provincial traditional ethnic sports games in 1995 and 2002 respectively, and participated in the national traditional ethnic sports games for seven times, which greatly promoted the development of national sports.

Respond to the call of the central authorities and actively support the construction of western ethnic areas. In recent years, according to the arrangement of the central authorities, Guangdong Province and Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan and other cities have actively carried out counterpart support activities in Guizhou Province, Linzhi region of Tibet, Hotan region and Hami region of Xinjiang, Baise region and Hechi region of Guangxi. Since 1990, Guangdong Province has taken measures such as free funds, interest-free loans, free donations of materials, cooperative development projects and labor services, training cadres, holding "Xinjiang classes" and "Tibet classes" to support ethnic areas in the west, and has made contributions to the large-scale development of the west.

Source: Guangdong Ethnic and Religious Network