The Establishment&Evolution of
Government Institutions for Ethnic Work in China
 Text by Li Jianhui Translation by Guo Qingmin

2009.1

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    The national program formulated for China's national democratic revolutionary movement at the second National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in July 1922 was to "end internal disorder, eliminate the warlords, achieve internal peace, terminate the oppression of world imperialism, gain total independence for the Chinese nation, create a true democratic republic by unifying China (including the three provinces in Northeast China), win regional autonomy for Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang..."


At the first session of CPPCC in 1949, Seypidin Eziz, delegate of different ethnic groups in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, presented ethnic clothing to Chairman Mao.
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The first session of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)was held on September 21,1949.This is a photo of the third group of ethnic minority delegates.
Front row (left)-Zhu Dehai, WangGuoxing, Kui Bi, Zhang Chong,Wu Hongbin, Jin Hanwen.
Back row （left）-Tiban Bao,Liu Geping,Duojie Caidan,Yang Jianren,Bai Shouyi,Zhu Zaoguan.
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In 1980s, Xi Zhongxun (second right), Yang Jingren (center), Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme (thind left) and Panchan Erdini (first right) went to the exhibition of Tibetan history and culture in Beijing.

The third session of Central Government's Ethnic Affairs Commission Conference in 1950s
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In 1954, Fei Xiaotong made legal explanations at the fourth session of Central Government's Ethnic Affairs Commission Conference. (The name of Central Government's Ethnic Affairs Commission has been changed to State Ethnic Affairs Commission since 1978)
Photo by Li Zhongkui
On April 23rd 1947, Inner Mongolia People's Congress opened in Wangye Temple. The delegates filed into the conference hall.
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