Article 1 In order to help ethnic autonomous areas accelerate economic and social development, enhance national unity and promote the common prosperity of all ethnic groups, these Provisions are formulated in accordance with the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Regional Ethnic Autonomy.
Article 2 People's governments at all levels should strengthen the publicity and education of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Regional National Autonomy and related laws, regulations and ethnic policies, formulate specific measures according to law, properly handle issues affecting ethnic unity, consolidate and develop socialist ethnic relations of equality, unity and mutual assistance, and prohibit acts that undermine ethnic unity and create ethnic divisions.
Article 3 It is the duty and responsibility of citizens to safeguard the reunification of the motherland and national unity.
The people's governments of ethnic autonomous areas shall earnestly guarantee the observance and implementation of the Constitution and laws in their own places and actively safeguard the overall interests of the country.
Article 4 People's governments at all levels shall actively carry out various activities to promote national unity and progress, and commend and reward units and individuals that have made outstanding contributions to the cause of national unity and progress.
Article 5 People's governments at higher levels and their functional departments should listen to the opinions of ethnic autonomous areas and ethnic work departments when formulating long-term plans for national economic and social development, and support and help ethnic autonomous areas to strengthen infrastructure construction, human resources development, expand opening up, adjust and optimize economic structure, rationally utilize natural resources, strengthen ecological construction and environmental protection, and accelerate the development of economy, education, science and technology, culture, health and sports according to the characteristics and needs of ethnic autonomous areas.
Article 6 The state implements the strategy of developing the western region and accelerates the development of ethnic autonomous areas. Autonomous counties that are not included in the scope of the western development shall be given support by the provincial people's government according to the relevant policies of the western development within their functions and powers.
Article 7 People's governments at higher levels shall give priority to infrastructure construction projects in ethnic autonomous areas according to their actual conditions.
The central financial construction funds, other special construction funds and policy bank loans will appropriately increase the proportion used for infrastructure construction in ethnic autonomous areas.
If the infrastructure construction projects arranged by the state need matching funds in ethnic autonomous areas, the proportion of matching funds shall be appropriately reduced. Key poverty alleviation counties in the country and counties with financial difficulties in ethnic autonomous areas are really unable to afford them, and matching funds are exempted. Among them, if the infrastructure construction project belongs to local affairs, the central and provincial people's governments shall determine the proportion of construction funds and arrange it in full according to the proportion; If it belongs to the central affairs, it shall be fully arranged by the central finance.
Article 8 The state gives priority to resource development and deep processing projects in ethnic autonomous areas in accordance with the national economic and social development plan and the strategy of developing the western region. Exploitation of petroleum, natural gas and other resources in ethnic autonomous areas shall be supported in promoting local economic development, developing corresponding service industries and promoting employment.
When arranging the use of mineral resources compensation fees collected by the state, we should increase investment in ethnic autonomous areas and give priority to ethnic autonomous areas.
The state will speed up the establishment of an ecological compensation mechanism, and give reasonable compensation to ethnic autonomous areas that have contributed to ecological environment protection such as wildlife protection and nature reserve construction at the national, regional and industrial levels through financial transfer payment and project support in accordance with the principles of developer paying, beneficiary compensation and destroyer compensation.
Article 9 The state shall fully consider the cost difference of public services in ethnic autonomous areas by means of general financial transfer payment, special financial transfer payment and financial transfer payment with preferential policies for ethnic minorities, and gradually increase financial transfer payment to ethnic autonomous areas. The relevant departments of the people's governments at higher levels shall allocate special funds to ethnic autonomous areas.
Higher-level finance supports the finance of ethnic autonomous areas to ensure the normal operation of state organs in ethnic autonomous areas, the timely and full payment of salaries of financial support personnel, and the normal expenditure of basic education.
If the tax reduction or exemption policy promulgated by the people's government at a higher level causes the fiscal revenue of ethnic autonomous areas to decrease, it will be taken care of as a factor when calculating the transfer payment.
The state regulates the financial transfer payment system below the provincial level, and ensures that the preferential policies such as transfer payment and tax refund from the state to ethnic autonomous areas are implemented in autonomous counties.
Article 10 The state shall set up various special funds to help ethnic autonomous areas develop their economic and social undertakings.
The central government has established a fund for the development of ethnic minorities and a fund for ethnic work. With the development of economy and the growth of central fiscal revenue, the scale of funds has gradually increased. Local finance should set up and arrange funds for the development of ethnic minorities and funds for ethnic work accordingly.
Article 11 The state helps ethnic autonomous areas to broaden indirect and direct financing channels and increase financial support for ethnic autonomous areas.
The state reasonably guides the investment of financial institutions' credit, and encourages financial institutions to actively support the key construction and rural development in ethnic autonomous areas. Grants and preferential loans from international organizations and foreign governments arranged by the people's governments at higher levels are conditionally inclined to ethnic autonomous areas.
Article 12 The State shall improve the preferential policies to support the development of ethnic trade, commodities with special needs of ethnic minorities and traditional handicrafts, take care of ethnic trade, commodities with special needs of ethnic minorities and traditional handicrafts in taxation, finance and fiscal policies, implement fixed-point production of commodities with special needs of ethnic minorities, and establish the necessary national reserve system.
Article 13 The state encourages ethnic autonomous areas along the border to carry out regional economic and technological cooperation and border trade with neighboring countries according to law.
With the approval of the State Council, border trade zones can be established in the border areas of ethnic autonomous areas bordering foreign countries.
The state adopts flexible measures to give preferential treatment and convenience to the trade between border areas and border areas of neighboring countries and the trade between border people.
Article 14 The State shall incorporate the construction of border areas into the economic and social development plan, help ethnic autonomous areas to speed up the construction of border areas, promote the action of prospering the border areas and enriching the people, and promote the coordinated development of border areas and the mainland.
The state has taken special measures in housing, life, culture, education, medical and health care and environmental protection. Increase the support of residents in border areas who have a significant impact on consolidating border defense and border security.
Article 15 The people's government at a higher level shall incorporate the development of areas inhabited by ethnic minorities into the national economic and social development plan, increase support, and give key support to transportation, energy, ecological environment protection and construction, agricultural infrastructure construction, radio, film and television, culture, education, medical care and public production and life.
Article 16 The state strengthens poverty alleviation and development in ethnic autonomous areas, giving priority to supporting infrastructure construction of poor villages and farmland capital construction in ethnic autonomous areas, focusing on water supply, power supply, access roads, radio and television, renovation of dilapidated houses and ecological migration, and mobilizing and organizing social forces to participate in poverty alleviation and development in ethnic autonomous areas.
Article 17 The state encourages, supports and guides the development of non-public economy in ethnic autonomous areas, and encourages social capital to participate in the construction of infrastructure and public utilities in ethnic autonomous areas and the restructuring of state-owned and collective enterprises.
Article 18 The state organizes and supports counterpart support between economically developed areas and ethnic autonomous areas. Help ethnic autonomous areas to accelerate the development of economy, culture, education, science and technology, health and sports by transferring labor-intensive and resource-processing industries, exchanging and training talents, and increasing capital investment and material support; Encourage and guide enterprises, institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutions and all sectors of society to increase their support for ethnic autonomous areas.
People's governments at all levels in ethnic autonomous areas guide and organize local people to go out for business and work in an orderly manner. The relevant local people's governments shall earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of ethnic minority personnel who work in foreign businesses.
Article 19 The state helps ethnic autonomous areas popularize nine-year compulsory education, eliminate illiteracy among young and middle-aged people, constantly improve the conditions for running schools, and vigorously support ethnic autonomous areas to focus on running boarding schools; To set up ethnic classes or ethnic middle schools in ordinary middle schools in developed areas, the school-running conditions, teaching and management level should meet the standards and levels of local schools.
The state takes measures to support the development of vocational education and adult education in ethnic autonomous areas according to local conditions, develop ordinary high school education and modern distance education, and promote the coordinated development of rural basic education, adult education and vocational education.
The state encourages and supports social forces to run schools in ethnic autonomous areas in various forms, and actively organizes developed areas to support the development of education in ethnic autonomous areas.
Twentieth people's governments at all levels should bring compulsory education in ethnic autonomous areas into the scope of public finance. The central finance will set up a special subsidy fund for minority education, and the local finance will arrange a special subsidy fund for minority education accordingly.
The state actively creates conditions to give priority to supporting compulsory education in border areas, poverty-stricken areas and areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, and gradually implements free compulsory education in rural areas of ethnic autonomous areas.
Article 21 The state helps and supports the development of higher education in ethnic autonomous areas, and holds ethnic colleges, ethnic preparatory classes and ethnic classes in ethnic colleges. Give special policy support to the discipline construction and postgraduate enrollment of universities and ethnic colleges in ethnic autonomous areas.
When all kinds of colleges and universities recruit students for ethnic autonomous areas, the enrollment ratio will increase year by year according to the scale and be appropriately inclined. For minority candidates who apply for junior college, undergraduate and postgraduate courses, they should add or subtract points according to the situation, appropriately relax the admission standards and conditions, and give special care to minority candidates with a particularly small population.
Article 22 The state guarantees the freedom of all ethnic groups to use and develop their own spoken and written languages, and supports the standardization, standardization and informatization of the spoken and written languages of ethnic minorities. Popularize Putonghua and standardize the use of Chinese characters; Encourage citizens of all ethnic groups in ethnic autonomous areas to learn languages from each other.
The state encourages ethnic autonomous areas to gradually implement "bilingual teaching" in ethnic minority languages and Chinese, supports the research, development, compilation and publication of ethnic minority languages and Chinese textbooks, supports the establishment and improvement of institutions for compiling and reviewing ethnic minority textbooks, and helps train teachers who are familiar with ethnic minority languages and Chinese.
Article 23 The state helps ethnic autonomous areas to establish and improve the scientific and technological service system and the scientific popularization system. The central government has increased its support for scientific and technological work in ethnic autonomous areas through national science and technology plans, science funds and special funds, and actively supported and promoted the development of scientific and technological undertakings in ethnic autonomous areas.
Article 24 People's governments at higher levels support ethnic autonomous areas in developing cultural undertakings of ethnic minorities in terms of policies and funds, strengthen the construction of cultural infrastructure, focus on supporting public welfare cultural undertakings with ethnic forms and characteristics, strengthen the construction of public cultural service systems in ethnic autonomous areas, and cultivate and develop ethnic cultural industries.
The state supports the development of the press and publication of ethnic minorities, completes the translation, production and broadcasting of radio, film and television programs in ethnic minority languages, and supports the translation and publication of publications in ethnic minority languages.
The state attaches great importance to the inheritance and development of the excellent traditional culture of ethnic minorities, and regularly holds traditional ethnic minority literary games and performances to prosper national literary and artistic creation and enrich the cultural life of people of all ethnic groups.
Twenty-fifth people's governments at higher levels support the protection and rescue of intangible cultural heritage of ethnic minorities, scenic spots and historical sites, cultural relics and other material cultural heritage, and support the collection, collation and publication of ancient books of ethnic minorities.
Article 26 People's governments at higher levels should increase capital investment and technical support for the construction of public health system in ethnic autonomous areas, take effective measures to prevent and control infectious diseases, endemic diseases and parasitic diseases, establish and improve rural health service system, new rural cooperative medical care system and medical assistance system, and reduce the burden of medical expenses for poor people in ethnic autonomous areas; People's governments at all levels increase investment in ethnic medicine, protect, support and develop ethnic medicine, and improve the health level of all ethnic groups.
People's governments at higher levels formulate preferential policies to encourage ethnic autonomous areas to implement family planning and prenatal and postnatal care, and improve the quality of the population of all ethnic groups.
Article 27 People's governments at higher levels shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state, help ethnic autonomous areas to speed up the construction of social security systems, establish and improve pension, unemployment, medical care, work injury insurance, maternity insurance and the minimum living security system for urban residents, and form a social security system that is compatible with the local economic and social development level.
Twenty-eighth people's governments at higher levels and their departments should be reasonably equipped with minority cadres; The people's governments of ethnic autonomous areas and their departments shall be equipped with leading cadres of ethnic groups and other ethnic groups that exercise regional autonomy according to law. When competing with leading cadres in public selection for posts, corresponding places and posts can be set aside to select minority cadres in a targeted manner.
When recruiting national staff, ethnic autonomous areas should take care of ethnic groups and other ethnic minorities who exercise regional autonomy, and the specific measures shall be formulated by the competent department of employment.
Article 29 People's governments at higher levels shall guide ethnic autonomous areas to formulate talent development plans, take various effective measures, and actively cultivate and use talents at all levels of all ethnic groups and other ethnic groups exercising regional autonomy.
The state actively takes measures to increase the training of cadres in ethnic minorities and ethnic autonomous areas, expand the scale of cadre training institutions and institutions of higher learning, train cadres and talents for ethnic autonomous areas, and establish and improve the cadre exchange system between ethnic autonomous areas and central state organs and economically developed areas.
The state encourages and supports all kinds of talents at all levels to develop and start businesses in ethnic autonomous areas, and the local people's governments shall provide them with preferential and convenient working and living conditions; Give appropriate care to the families and children of Han and other ethnic talents who work in remote and cold ethnic autonomous areas with difficult conditions, such as employment and schooling.
Thirtieth people's governments at all levels of ethnic affairs departments to implement supervision and inspection of the implementation of these Provisions, supervision and inspection report to the people's government at the same level every year, and put forward opinions and suggestions.
Article 31 Whoever, in violation of the state financial system and financial system, misappropriates, deducts or intercepts the funds used by the state finance for ethnic autonomous areas shall be ordered to return the misappropriated, deducted or intercepted funds within a time limit, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be given administrative sanctions according to law; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.
Thirty-second administrative departments of people's governments at all levels, in violation of these provisions, do not perform their duties according to law, and their superior administrative organs or supervisory organs shall order them to make corrections.
Staff of administrative organs at all levels abuse their powers, neglect their duties, engage in malpractices for selfish ends in the implementation of these Provisions, which constitutes a crime, and shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law; If it does not constitute a crime, it shall be given administrative sanctions according to law.
Article 33 The people's governments at higher levels mentioned in these Provisions refer to the people's governments at higher levels in ethnic autonomous areas.
Article 34 The relevant departments of the State Council, the people's governments of provinces and municipalities directly under the Central Government under the jurisdiction of autonomous prefectures and autonomous counties shall, within the scope of their functions and powers, formulate specific measures in accordance with these Provisions and report them to the State Council for implementation.
Article 35 These Provisions shall come into force as of May 36, 2005.