Look Back & Ahead: the Strategic Choice on Economic Development of Ethnic Areas in China

The strategic choice on economic development of ethnic areas generally has experienced the evolving process: balance, non\|balance, balance; that is of the same linage as the macroscopic stra tegy on development of national economy; without ethnic characters, that has leaded to that lots of economic policies of ethnic minorities have paid attention to helping the distressed and relieving the sufferers only with economic ways, and havent driven ethnic minorities' self\|reliance. During the new century, the nation, according to the autonomous policy of ethnic regions, should construct the economic development strategy on ethnic regions and relative economic policies with ethnic characters in order to improve the self\|reform and self\|prosperity of ethnic minorities. [