On the Necessity and Meaning of Legislating the Ethnic Regional Autonomy

The ethnic regional autonomy is not only a basic system but a basic policy to resolve the ethnic problems.Under the unified leadership of the state,regional autonomy is practiced in areas where people of minority nationalities live in compact communities;in these areas organs of self-government are established for the exercise of the right of autonomy.Regional Autonomy provides a constitutional framework for the ethnic minorities to be hosts,within our country and the autonomous areas,as,on the one hand,guarantees their lawful rights and interests,and on the other,speeds up the political,economic and social development of minority areas.In our multinational country,it has great necessity and practical significance to legislation of the ethnic regional autonomy.