National Ethnic Affairs Commission

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.

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 (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
  • Publishing House of Minority Nationalities
Websitewww.neac.gov.cn
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

History

In 2013, the Xinjiang Work Coordination Small Group was moved from the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission to the NEAC.[1]: 75  In a 2018 reorganization, the NEAC was placed under United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[2][3] It had previously been under the State Council.[4]: 77 

In 2020, a Han Chinese Chen Xiaojiang was named director of the commission, the first Han Chinese to lead the body since 1954.[5] In 2022, Pan Yue became the director. Under Pan, calls for "ethnic fusion" of all non-Han minority ethnic groups became louder.[6][7]

List of ministers
Head of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission
No.NameEthnicityTook officeLeft office
1Li Weihan (李维汉)HanOctober 1949September 1954
2Ulanhu (乌兰夫)MongolSeptember 1954January 1975
3Yang Jingren (杨静仁)HuiMarch 1978January 1986
4Ismail Amat (司马义·艾买提)UyghurJanuary 1986March 1998
5Li Dezhu (李德洙)KoreanMarch 1998March 2008
6Yang Jing (杨晶)MongolMarch 200816 March 2013
7Wang Zhengwei (王正伟)Hui16 March 201328 April 2016
8Bagatur (巴特尔)Mongol28 April 201614 December 2020
9Chen Xiaojiang (陈小江)Han14 December 202024 June 2022[8][9]
10 Pan Yue (潘岳) Han 24 June 2022

Subsidiary institutions
  • Publishing House of Minority Nationalities

See also

Similar government agencies

References
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