What policies have been implemented in Xinjiang since the founding of New China?

Xinjiang has implemented the system of regional ethnic autonomy.

The system of regional ethnic autonomy refers to a system in which under the unified leadership of the state, regional autonomy is practiced in areas where ethnic minorities live in compact communities, and organs of self-government are set up to exercise autonomy. The system of regional ethnic autonomy is a basic political system in China and an important part of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's political construction.

The system of regional ethnic autonomy is to set up organs of self-government, exercise autonomy, independently manage the internal affairs of the nation and the region, and exercise the right to be the masters of the country under the unified leadership of the state and on the basis of areas where ethnic minorities live in concentrated communities.

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Superiority of regional ethnic autonomy

Practice has proved that the implementation of regional ethnic autonomy conforms to historical development and reality and has great advantages.

1. The system of regional ethnic autonomy is conducive to safeguarding national unity and security. Based on territorial integrity and national unity, regional ethnic autonomy is an organic combination of centralized and unified leadership of the state and regional ethnic autonomy. It has strengthened the cohesion of the Chinese nation, and enabled people of all ethnic groups, especially ethnic minorities, to gather deep feelings of loving their own nation and the motherland, and more consciously shoulder the glorious responsibility of defending the reunification of the motherland and defending the frontier.

2. The system of regional ethnic autonomy is conducive to ensuring the realization of the right of ethnic minorities to be masters of their own affairs.

3. The system of regional ethnic autonomy is conducive to the development of socialist ethnic relations of equality, unity, mutual assistance and harmony.

4. The system of regional ethnic autonomy is conducive to the vigorous development of socialist modernization.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Regional National Autonomy