"差别化区域支持政策":新时代民族事务治理理念的重大突破OACHSSCD

"Differentiated ethnic support policies"served an important historical function in addressing China's ethnic affairs governance needs,but their limitations have become increasingly apparent as the country enters a new stage of national rejuvenation and high-quality development in ethnic minority regions.Xi Jinping's directive to"improve differentiated regional support poli-cies"signals a significant policy reorientation.The shift from ethnicity-based to region-based differentiation subsumes particularistic"ethnic development"under a holistic"regional develop-ment"framework,integrates diverse ethnic identities within a unified civic identity,and funda-mentally corrects the distortions inherent in the previous policy.This transition dissolves ethnic identity barriers,reduces particularism,enhances commonality,and achieves a higher level of eth-nic solidarity-thereby fostering the healthy development of the Chinese national community.