The library focuses on collecting books and documents on ethnic theory and policy, ethnic economy, ethnic history, ethnology, anthropology, ethnology, ethnic customs, ethnic religious beliefs, ethnic languages, ethnic culture and education, ethnic literature and art, and languages of the world's ethnic groups and ethnic minorities. And formed a professional library mainly based on ethnic research materials and frontier historical and geographical materials.
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Publish Ethnic Studies (quarterly), Ethnic Languages (quarterly) and Nationalities of the World (bimonthly).