The Economist-How far-reaching is Chinas assimilation policy News
January 24, 2024 1 min 164 words
中国对少数民族的同化政策究竟有多深远？本文揭示了这一政策在云南省一个蒙古乡镇中的影响，该乡镇有6000人，距离内蒙古的蒙古族聚居地有2500多公里。北京分社社长大卫·任尼与资深中国记者艾丽斯·苏共同报道了兴蒙的传统那达慕庆典。他们提出了一个重要问题：在习近平领导下的中国，党对这个小社区的处理反映了什么样的民族政策？这篇报道使人们思考中国的多元文化如何在中央政府一体化的过程中保持其独特性。
China’s attempts to assimilate ethnic minorities leaves no stone unturned. It has even reached one of China’s quirkiest communities—a pocket of 6,000 people in a Mongolian township in Yunnan province, more than 2,500km from Inner Mongolia where most ethnic Mongols live.
David Rennie, our Beijing bureau chief reports from a traditional Naadam ceremony in Xingmeng. Together with Alice Su, our senior China correspondent, they ask: What does the Party’s treatment of this tiny community tell us about ethnic policy in Xi Jinping’s China?
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