The Impact of the Chinese Government's Ethnic Economic Policies on the Economic Development of the Ethnic Minority Areas such as Xinjiang and Tibet

Abstract

This paper briefly introduces the special preferential economic policies implemented by the Chinese government in ethnic minority areas. For statistical comparison and analysis, the authors divide China into ethnic minority economic zones and non ethnic minority economic zones. In some analyses, the cases of Xinjiang and Tibet are also cited separately. Due to the series of preferential policies adopted by the Chinese government, the economic development of China's ethnic minority areas has kept up with the pace of the national economic development.

Keywords: Ethnic Minorities, Ethnic Minority Areas, Economic Development, Ethnic Economic Policy

JEL Classification: O1, H00, H2, H3, N45