State Ethnic Affairs Commission

The National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China (NEAC) is a cabinet-level department under the State Council of the People's Republic of China and responsible for relations between the Central Government and ethnic minorities in China. In 2018, NEAC was placed under the leadership of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China.[1][2]

National Ethnic Affairs Commission
of the People's Republic of China

中华人民共和国国家民族事务委员会 Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Guójiā Mínzú Shìwù Wěiyuánhuì
Emblem of the People's Republic of China
Agency overview
Formed	1949
Type	Constituent Department of the State Council (cabinet-level executive department)
Jurisdiction	People's Republic of China
Headquarters	Beijing
Minister responsible	Bagatur, in charge of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission
Parent agency	State Council
Website	www.neac.gov.cn

State Ethnic Affairs Commission
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	中华人民共和国国家民族事务委员会
Traditional Chinese	中華人民共和國國家民族事務委員會
Literal meaning	National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Guójiā Mínzú Shìwù Wěiyuánhuì
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	国家民委
Traditional Chinese	國家民委
Literal meaning	National Ethnic-Commission
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Guójiā mínwěi
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཀྲུང་ཧྭ་མི་དམངས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་མི་རིགས་དོན་གཅོད་ཨུ་ཡོན་ལྷན་ཁང་
Zhuang name
Zhuang	Cunghvaz Yinzminz Gunghozgoz Guekgya Minzcuz Swvu Veijyenzvei
Mongolian name
Mongolian script	ᠪᠥᠬᠥᠳᠡ ᠨᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠᠮᠳᠠᠬᠤ ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠬᠡᠷᠡᠭ ᠡᠷᠬᠢᠯᠡᠬᠦ ᠬᠣᠷᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ
Uyghur name
Uyghur	جۇڭخۇا خەلق جۇمھۇرىيتى دۆلەت مىللەت ئىشلىرى كومىتېتى‎

List of Ministers

Ministers in charge of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission

No.	Name	Ethnicity	Took office	Left office
1	Li Weihan (李维汉)	Han	October 1949	September 1954
2	Ulanhu (乌兰夫)	Mongol	September 1954	January 1975
3	Yang Jingren (杨静仁)	Hui	March 1978	January 1986
4	Ismail Amat (司马义·艾买提)	Uyghur	January 1986	March 1998
5	Li Dezhu (李德洙)	Korean	March 1998	March 2008
6	Yang Jing (杨晶)	Mongol	March 2008	16 March 2013
7	Wang Zhengwei (王正伟)	Hui	16 March 2013	28 April 2016
8	Bagatur (巴特尔)	Mongol	28 April 2016	Incumbent

Subsidiary institutions

• Publishing House of Minority Nationalities

See also

• Zhonghua minzu
  • List of ethnic groups in China
• Zhao Yannian, Vice Minister (1986–2003)

Related PRC authorities

• United Front Work Department (Communist Party of China)
• National People's Congress Ethnic Affairs Committee
• State Administration for Religious Affairs (State Council)

Similar government agencies

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

References

1. Joske, Alex (May 9, 2019). "Reorganizing the United Front Work Department: New Structures for a New Era of Diaspora and Religious Affairs Work". Jamestown Foundation. Archived from the original on July 21, 2019. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
2. Zhao, Taotao; Leibold, James (October 13, 2019). "Ethnic Governance under Xi Jinping: The Centrality of the United Front Work Department & Its Implications". Journal of Contemporary China: 1–16. doi:10.1080/10670564.2019.1677359. ISSN 1067-0564.

External links

• Official website