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The National Ethnic Affairs Commission is a cabinet-level executive department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China under the formal leadership of the United Front Work Department that is responsible for relations between the Chinese government and
ethnic minorities in China Ethnic minorities in China are the non- Han population in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The PRC officially recognizes 55 ethnic minority groups within China in addition to the Han majority. As of 2010, the combined population of off ...
. It supervises the implementation - and monitors the performance - of national and regional systems to manage 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. In 2020, a Han Chinese was named director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission for the first time since 1954.


List of Ministers


Subsidiary institutions

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Publishing House of Minority Nationalities The Publishing House of Minority Nationalities () is a publishing house established on January 15, 1953, as a division of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, and focused on academic publishing Academic publishing is the subfield of publish ...


See also

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Zhonghua minzu ''Zhonghua minzu'' (, ) is a political term in modern Chinese nationalism related to the concepts of nation-building, ethnicity, and race in the Chinese nationality. ''Zhonghua minzu'' was established during the early Beiyang (1912– ...
** List of ethnic groups in China *
Zhao Yannian Zhao Yannian (; July 1929 – 18 October 2019) was a Chinese politician. An ethnic Hui, he served as Vice Minister of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission from 1986 to 2003. Biography Zhao Yannian was born in July 1929 in Nanzhao County, Henan ...
, Vice Minister (1986–2003)


Related PRC authorities

* United Front Work Department (Chinese Communist Party) *
National People's Congress Ethnic Affairs Committee The National People's Congress Ethnic Affairs Committee () is one of ten special committees of the National People's Congress, the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. The special committee was created during the first session ...
* State Administration for Religious Affairs


Similar government agencies

* Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (Republic of China) * Lifan Yuan (Qing dynasty) * Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs (Yuan dynasty)


References


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* {{authority control Government agencies of China State Council of the People's Republic of China 1949 establishments in China Government agencies established in 1949 Ethnicity in politics Organizations associated with the Chinese Communist Party China Ethnic groups in China United front (China)