First, the basics
One main line:
Forge the sense of community of the Chinese nation
One Community:
Community of the Chinese nation
A firm:
We will unswervingly follow the correct path of resolving ethnic issues with Chinese characteristics.
Two combined:
We should persist in integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture.
Two big picture:
The overall strategic situation of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the great changes in the world unseen in a century.
Two visions:
Create a better future for the Chinese nation and share the great glory of national rejuvenation.
Three Consciousnesses:
Awareness of the rule of law, citizenship, and the country.
Three bestows one in favor of:
All development must be endowed with the significance of national unity and progress, the significance of safeguarding unity and opposing separatism, the significance of improving people's livelihood and rallying people's hearts, and the significance of enhancing the sense of gain, happiness and security of the people of all ethnic groups.
"Four Together":
Forge the essence of the sense of community of the Chinese nation, and guide the people of all ethnic groups to firmly establish the community concept of sharing weal and woe, weal and woe, life and death, and destiny.
Four commons:
Our vast territory has been jointly opened up by all ethnic groups; Our long history is written by all ethnic groups; Our splendid culture is created by all ethnic groups; Our great spirit has been cultivated by all ethnic groups.
Four self-confidences:
Institutional confidence, cultural confidence, road confidence, and theoretical confidence
Five maintenances:
Safeguard socialist democracy, the socialist legal system, the fundamental interests of the people, the unification of the motherland, and national unity.
Five Identities:
Continuously strengthen the identification of all ethnic groups with the great motherland, the Chinese nation, Chinese culture, the Communist Party of China, and socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Six mutual:
All nationalities should understand each other, respect each other, tolerate each other, appreciate each other, learn from each other, and help each other.
The key tasks of forging the sense of community of the Chinese nation
i.e. "5+1". The five tasks are to comprehensively implement the five tasks of promoting the construction of a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation, promoting the common march of all ethnic groups towards socialist modernization, promoting exchanges and integration among all ethnic groups, improving the modernization level of the governance system and governance capacity of ethnic affairs, and resolutely guarding against major risks and hidden dangers in the field of ethnic minorities. One guarantee is to strengthen and improve the party's overall leadership over ethnic work.
Topic:
All ethnic groups work together in unity and strive for common prosperity and development.
Overall Objectives:
The Chinese nation is a family and works together to build the Chinese dream
2. Ethnic Theory and Policy
The sense of community of the Chinese nation
Since ancient times, as a unified multi-ethnic country, the mainland has been constantly interacting and blending with various ethnic groups, forming a pluralistic and integrated pattern in which no one can do without anyone, and has converged into a community with a shared future for the Chinese nation. History has proved that the sense of community of the Chinese nation is the foundation of national unity, the foundation of national unity, and the soul of spiritual strength. At present, to strengthen the great unity of the Chinese nation, it is fundamentally necessary to strengthen cultural identity, build a common spiritual home for all ethnic groups, and cultivate and enhance the sense of community of the Chinese nation.
Four inevitable requirements
Forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation is an inevitable requirement for safeguarding the fundamental interests of all ethnic groups, for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, for consolidating and developing socialist ethnic relations of equality, unity, mutual assistance, and harmony, and for creating a new situation in the party's ethnic work.
General requirements
Forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation is the main line of the party's ethnic work in the new era, and it is also the main line of all work in minority areas.
Strategic tasks
It is necessary to promote Chinese-style modernization with the great unity of the Chinese nation, so that every citizen of all ethnic groups can contribute to the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Implementation path
We should grasp well the relationship between commonality and difference, between the sense of community of the Chinese nation and the consciousness of all ethnic groups, between Chinese culture and the culture of various ethnic groups, and between material and spiritual, and all reform and development should be given the significance of manifesting the sense of community of the Chinese nation, the significance of safeguarding unity and opposing separatism, and the significance of improving people's livelihood and uniting people's hearts.
Job security
It is necessary to uphold the party's overall leadership, resolutely safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the party central committee, and resolutely implement the decisions and arrangements of the party central committee.
The Chinese nation is a family and works together to build the Chinese dream
On September 30, 2015, Comrade Xi Jinping proposed that "the Chinese nation is one family and work together to build the Chinese dream" when meeting with outstanding representatives of grassroots ethnic unity. It summarizes the major decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core on ethnic work, is the core concept of Xi Jinping's important thought on ethnic work in the new era, and is a vivid embodiment of the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in the field of ethnic work.
Ethnic work is the "three major events"
It is a major event that has a bearing on the reunification of the motherland and the consolidation of the border areas, a major event that has a bearing on national unity and social stability, and a major event that has a bearing on the long-term peace and stability of the country and the prosperity of the Chinese nation.
Ethnic affairs are governed in accordance with the law
In 2017, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Governing Ethnic Affairs in Accordance with Law and Promoting Ethnic Unity. The "Opinions" emphasize that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the basic strategy of governing the country according to the law, promote ethnic unity by improving the level of governing ethnic affairs according to the law, promote exchanges and integration among all ethnic groups, and promote the realization of "the Chinese nation is one family, and work together to build the Chinese dream". Governing ethnic affairs according to law is one of the important contents of comprehensively governing the country according to law, is a key link in adhering to the correct path of resolving ethnic issues with Chinese characteristics, and is an important guideline for doing a good job in ethnic work.
The Correct Path to Solving the Ethnic Problem with Chinese Characteristics and the "Eight Persistences"
That is, to adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adhere to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, persist in safeguarding the unity of the motherland, adhere to the equality of all ethnic groups, adhere to and improve the system of regional ethnic autonomy, adhere to the common struggle and common prosperity and development of all ethnic groups, persist in laying a solid ideological foundation for the community of the Chinese nation, and persist in governing the country according to law.
Central Ethnic Work Conference
It is an important meeting to study and make arrangements for ethnic work from a strategic and overall perspective. It has been held 5 times in 1992, 1999, 2005, 2014 and 2021.
Urban ethnic work
Urban ethnic work is not only an important part of ethnic work, but also an important part of urban work, which requires continuous efforts, long-term efforts, and gradual progress.
Ethnic groups are embedded in social structures and community environments
Actively create social conditions for all ethnic groups to live and study together, build and share together, and work and enjoy together, and promote the people of all ethnic groups to gradually realize all-round embedding in space, culture, economy, society, psychology and other aspects.
3. Ethnic relations
A New Type of Socialist Ethnic Relations:
Equality, solidarity, mutual assistance and harmony. Among them, equality is the cornerstone, unity is the main line, mutual assistance is the guarantee, and harmony is the essence.
Sanwa:
Harmonious coexistence, harmony and harmonious development.
Sanjiao:
Extensive exchanges, comprehensive exchanges, and in-depth integration.
National Commendation Conference for National Unity and Progress:
Since 1988, the State Council has held the National Commendation Conference for Ethnic Unity and Progress, which has been held seven times in 1988, 1994, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2014 and 2019. Among them, in 1999, 2005 and 2014, it was held together with the Central Ethnic Work Conference.