National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China
中华人民共和国国家民族事务委员会
Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Guójiā Mínzú Shìwù Wěiyuánhuì
Agency overview
Formed1949; 75 years ago (1949)
JurisdictionGovernment of China
HeadquartersBeijing
Minister responsible
  • Pan Yue, Head of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission
Parent agencyUnited Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Child agency
Websitewww.neac.gov.cn Edit this at Wikidata
National Ethnic Affairs Commission
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese中华人民共和国国家民族事务委员会
Traditional Chinese中華人民共和國國家民族事務委員會
Literal meaningNational Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese国家民委
Traditional Chinese國家民委
Literal meaningNational Ethnic-Commission
Tibetan name
Tibetanཀྲུང་ཧྭ་མི་དམངས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་མི་རིགས་དོན་གཅོད་ཨུ་ཡོན་ལྷན་ཁང་
Zhuang name
ZhuangCunghvaz Yinzminz Gunghozgoz Guekgya Minzcuz Swvu Veijyenzvei
Mongolian name
Mongolian scriptᠪᠥᠬᠥᠳᠡ
ᠨᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠᠮᠳᠠᠬᠤ
ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ
ᠠᠷᠠᠳ
ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ
ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ
ᠬᠡᠷᠡᠭ
ᠡᠷᠬᠢᠯᠡᠬᠦ
ᠬᠣᠷᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ
Uyghur name
Uyghurجۇڭخۇا خەلق جۇمھۇرىيتى دۆلەت مىللەت ئىشلىرى كومىتېتى‎

The National Ethnic Affairs Commission is a body under the leadership of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party that is responsible for relations between the Chinese government and ethnic minorities in China. It supervises the implementation - and monitors the performance - of national and regional systems to manage and sinicize non-Han ethnic minorities.

History

In 2018, the NEAC was officially placed under the direct leadership of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[1][2]

In 2020, a Han Chinese Chen Xiaojiang was named director of the Commission, the first Han Chinese to lead the body since 1954.[3] In 2022, Pan Yue became the director. Under Pan, calls for "ethnic fusion" of all non-Han minority ethnic groups became louder.[4][5]

List of ministers

Head of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission
No. Name Ethnicity Took office Left office
1 Li Weihan (李维汉) Han October 1949 September 1954
2 Ulanhu (乌兰夫) Mongol September 1954 January 1975
3 Yang Jingren (杨静仁) Hui March 1978 January 1986
4 Ismail Amat (司马义·艾买提) Uyghur January 1986 March 1998
5 Li Dezhu (李德洙) Korean March 1998 March 2008
6 Yang Jing (杨晶) Mongol March 2008 16 March 2013
7 Wang Zhengwei (王正伟) Hui 16 March 2013 28 April 2016
8 Bagatur (巴特尔) Mongol 28 April 2016 14 December 2020
9 Chen Xiaojiang (陈小江) Han 14 December 2020 24 June 2022[6][7]
10 Pan Yue (潘岳) Han 24 June 2022

Subsidiary institutions

See also

Related PRC authorities

Similar government agencies

References

  1. ^ Joske, Alex (May 9, 2019). "Reorganizing the United Front Work Department: New Structures for a New Era of Diaspora and Religious Affairs Work". Jamestown Foundation. Archived from the original on July 21, 2019. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
  2. ^ Zhao, Taotao; Leibold, James (October 13, 2019). "Ethnic Governance under Xi Jinping: The Centrality of the United Front Work Department & Its Implications". Journal of Contemporary China. 29 (124): 487–502. doi:10.1080/10670564.2019.1677359. ISSN 1067-0564. S2CID 211427737.
  3. ^ Leibold, James. "Beyond Xinjiang: Xi Jinping's Ethnic Crackdown". The Diplomat. Archived from the original on February 17, 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  4. ^ Glasserman, Aaron (February 24, 2023). "Touting 'Ethnic Fusion,' China's New Top Official for Minority Affairs Envisions a Country Free of Cultural Difference". ChinaFile. Asia Society. Archived from the original on May 26, 2023. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  5. ^ Glasserman, Aaron (March 2, 2023). "China's Head of Ethnic Affairs Is Keen to End Minority Culture". Foreign Policy. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
  6. ^ "Chen Xiaojiang was appointed Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission". National Ethnic Affairs Commission (in Chinese). December 14, 2020. Archived from the original on August 30, 2021. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  7. ^ Lew, Linda (December 19, 2020). "China puts Han official in charge of ethnic minority affairs as Beijing steps up push for integration". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on December 21, 2020. Retrieved December 22, 2020.

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