The Status Quo, Opportunity and Approach——the Development of Ethnic Minorities in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative

Abstract

Currently, China is advancing the Belt and Road Initiative, which creates a new opportunity of historical significance and provides guidance for the economic and social development of ethnic minority communities (particularly those in western China). Under the new historical conditions, it is necessary to innovate and improve China’s regional aid policies and regional development strategies such as the “pairing assistance” and the Western Development, and organically combine them with the Belt and Road Initiative. In the meantime, China should revolve tightly around the internal and external “connectivity,” and give full play to the functions of the “pairing assistance” policy and the “Western Development” strategy in a bid to boost the ethnic development of contemporary China within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative

Keywords

• the belt and road initiative
• ethnic minority development
• the “pairing assistance”
• the western development
• regional aid policy
• regional development strategy