By: Bitethehand

Bitethehand
Fri, 05 Sep 2025 05:08:04 +0000

In reply to DT_AUS.

Didn’t your mother tell you it was rude to use such foul language in public?

But to deal with your claim, there are 55 officially recognised minority/ethnic nationalities in China. The most numerous are:

Zhuang (16.1 million), Manchu (10.6 million), Hui (9.8 million), Miao (8.9 million), Uyghur (8.3 million), Tujia (8 million), Yi (7.7 million), Mongol (5.8 million), Tibetan (5.4 million), Buyei (2.9 million), Dong (2.9 million), Yao (2.6 million), Korean (1.9 million), Bai (1.8 million), Hani (1.4 million), Kazakh (1.2 million), Li (1.2 million), and Dai (1.1 million).

The policy of preferential treatment of minority nationalities entails financial and other support for economic development, cultural traditions, language, education, literature, and local political leadership.

The government has passed laws to ensure affirmative action policies for ethnic minorities such as preferential or bonus point in the College Entrance Examination. This began in 1949 and still exists today. Minority ethnic groups in China were not subjected to the one-child policy. (now abandoned)

Three principles form the basis for the policy: equality for national minorities, territorial autonomy, and equality for all languages and cultures. The Chinese government officially allowed minority parents to have more than one child per family instead of the one imposed on the Han majority, as part of the (former) one-child policy. Rena Singer of Knight-Ridder Newspapers wrote that “In practice, many minority families simply have as many children as they want.”

Affirmative action policies

No taxes in minority regions are required to be sent to the central government; all of it can be spent locally. Minorities receive proportional representation in local government. Higher-level jurisdictions ask lower-level minority areas to introduce “extensive efforts to support the country’s construction by providing more natural resources” and in exchange gives them infrastructural subsidies such as personnel training, budgetary subventions, and disproportionate public works investments. The Chinese government encourages business to hire minorities and offers no-interest loans to businesses operated by minorities. Prominent government posts may be filled with “model” citizens who are from minority nationalities.

Minority students applying to universities receive bonus points in the National Higher Education Entrance Examination (gaokao). There is a system of universities exclusively for minority students. The government established bilingual programs to help minorities learn Mandarin Chinese. Scholars are creating alphabets for minority languages that had not been previously written as a way of preserving those languages.

Finally, there is the diverse minority nationalities clothing culture.