National Ethnic Affairs Commission
Chinese Communist Party body
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The National Ethnic Affairs Commission (NEAC), also called the State Ethnic Affairs Commission (SEAC), is a body under the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party that is responsible for administering the Chinese ethnic policies, researching ethnological theories, carrying out ethnic work and education, supervising the implementation and improvement of the system of regional ethnic autonomy.[1][2]
| 中华人民共和国国家民族事务委员会 Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Guójiā Mínzú Shìwù Wěiyuánhuì | |
Logo of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission | |
.jpg) Headquarters of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1949 |
| Jurisdiction | Government of China |
| Headquarters | |
Minister responsible | |
Parent agency | United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
Child agency | |
| Website | www |
| National Ethnic Affairs Commission | |||||||
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| 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 | ||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 国家民委 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 國家民委 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | National Ethnic-Commission | ||||||
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| 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 ᠬᠣᠷᠢᠶᠠ | ||||||
| Uyghur name | |||||||
| Uyghur | جۇڭخۇا خەلق جۇمھۇرىيتى دۆلەت مىللەت ئىشلىرى كومىتېتى | ||||||
History
In 1949, the Ethnic Affairs Commission of the Central People's Government (Chinese: 中央人民政府民族事务委员会) was established. In 1954, the Ethnic Affairs Commission of the Central People's Government was renamed the Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China (Chinese: 中华人民共和国民族事务委员会). The PRC Ethnic Affairs Commission was abolished in 1970.[3] The State Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China (Chinese: 中华人民共和国国家民族事务委员会) was established.[4] Since 1978, it has been a constituent department of the State Council.[5][6]
The National Ethnic Affairs Commission was put under the leadership of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in March 2018 as part of a series of institutional reforms.[7][8][9] The National Ethnic Affairs Commission remains as a constituent department of the State Council.[10]
On August 31, 2020, according to the National Development and Reform Commission's "Implementation Opinions on Comprehensively Pushing Forward the Reform of Delinking Trade Associations and Administrative Organs", the China Association of Ethnic Folk Crafts and Arts Artists, the China Ethnic Economy Promotion Association for Foreign Cooperation, and the National Association of Ethnic Secondary Education, formerly under the supervision of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, were separated from the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.[11][12]
In 2022, the NEAC launched a publication called DeepChina and its domestic Chinese edition Dao Zhonghua (Chinese: 道中華) to conduct "public opinion struggle" and "cognitive warfare" in support of the CCP's ethnic policies.[13] In 2025, the State Council granted NEAC authority to design and pilot a new and explicitly "political" ethnographic field of study at 15 universities that emphasizes "community" between Han and non-Han ethnicities in mainland China.[14]
Organization
According to the Provisions on the Functional Configuration, Internal Organizations and Staffing of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Approval of the Central Editorial Office on Adjusting the Organizational Establishment of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, the NEAC has set up the following organizations:[15]
Internal Organizations
- General Office
- Division of Coordination and Promotion
- Division of Theory and Research
- Division of Policies and Regulations
- Division of Promotion of National Unity
- Division of Joint Development
- Division of Culture and Publicity
- Division of Education
- Division of International Exchange (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Office)
- Division of Personnel
- Division Party Committee of Organizations
- Bureau of Retired Cadres
Directly Affiliated Organizations
Directly Affiliated Cultural institutions
- Central Academy for Ethnic Cadres (Chinese: 中央民族干部学院)
- China Nationalities Language Translation Center (China Nationalities Language Translation Bureau)
- China National Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble
- Publishing House of Minority Nationalities
- Journal of National Unity
- Cultural Palace of Nationalities
- China Ethnic Museum
- China Ethnic Newspaper
Directly Affiliated Higher Education Institutions
Directly Affiliated Enterprise Units
- China National Culture Publishing House Ltd.
Leadership
| No. | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Important offices held during tenure | Highest office held | Notes | Ref. |
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| Director of the Ethnic Affairs Commission of the Central People's Government | ||||||||
| 1 |  |
Li Weihan | 19 October 1949 | 28 September 1954 | Secretary-General of the State Council, Head of the United Front Work Department | Member of the Politburo Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Deputy Director of the Central Advisory Commission |
Deputy-state level, Han | [16] |
| Director of the Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China | ||||||||
| 2 |  |
Ulanhu | 28 September 1954 | 22 June 1970 | Vice Premier of the State Council | Vice President of China | Deputy-state level, Mongol | |
| Director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China | ||||||||
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Yang Jingren | 5 March 1978 | 20 January 1986 | Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department
Vice Premier of the State Council since September 1980, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference since June 1983 |
Deputy-state level, Hui | ||
| 4 | Ismail Amat | 20 January 1986 | 18 March 1998 | Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference since April 1988
State Councilor since 1993 |
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress | Deputy-state level, Uyghur | [17] | |
| 5 | Li Dezhu | 18 March 1998 | 17 March 2008 | Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department | Korean | [18] | ||
| 6 |  |
Yang Jing | 17 March 2008 | 16 March 2013 | Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department
Secretary of the CCP Secretariat since November 2012 |
State Councilor and Secretary-General of the State Council | Deputy-state level, Mongol | [19] |
| 7 | .jpg) |
Wang Zhengwei | 16 March 2013 | 28 April 2016 | Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department |
Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | Hui | [20] |
| 8 |  |
Bagatur | 28 April 2016 | 26 December 2020 | Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference since March 2018 | Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | Mongol | [21] |
| 9 | Chen Xiaojiang | 26 December 2020 | 24 June 2022 | Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department | Executive Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department | Han | [22][23] | |
| 10 |  |
Pan Yue | 24 June 2022 | Incumbent | Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department | Han | [24] | |
