Adopted at the Second Session of the Sixth National People's
Congress, promulgated by Order No.13 of the President of the
People's Republic of China on May 31, 1984, and effective as of
October 1, 1984
Preface
The People's Republic of China is a unitary multinational state
created jointly by the people of all its nationalities. Regional
national autonomy is the basic policy adopted by the Communist
Party of China for the solution of the national question in China
through its application of Marxism-Leninism; it is an important
political system of the state.
Regional national autonomy means that the minority
nationalities, under unified state leadership, practise regional
autonomy in areas where they live in concentrated communities and
set up organs of self-government for the exercise of the power of
autonomy. Regional national autonomy embodies the state's full
respect for and guarantee of the right of the minority
nationalities to administer their internal affairs and its
adherence to the principle of equality, unity and common prosperity
for all its nationalities.
Regional national autonomy has played an enormous role in giving
full play to the initiative of all nationalities as masters of the
country, in developing among them a socialist relationship of
equality, unity and mutual assistance, in consolidating the
unification of the country and in promoting socialist construction
in the national autonomous areas and the rest of the country. The
system of regional national autonomy will have a still greater role
to play in the country's socialist modernization in the years to
come...
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