Discussion About Deng Xiaoping's National Theory And Practices

Issues of nationality used to be a common problem for multi-nationality countries all over the world. China is a great nation with multi-nationality in unification, the basic state condition as a socialist country at the primary stage, is the basis of establishing national course, lines and policies. Based on this state condition, Deng Xiaoping persisted in the principle of combining Marxism National Theory with the actual situation of China as multi-nationality country, with a view to the characteristics of our times, and abided by the ideology of seeking truth from facts, he established and developed the ethnic theory, which fit our times and met the need of socialist development with Chinese characteristics. Deng Xiaoping's National Theory is an essential part of his theory of establishing a socialist country with Chinese characteristics, and it's the crystallization of the collective wisdom from Communist Party of China and Chinese people.Deng Xiaoping's National Theory is abundant in its content, this article makes a systematic and scientific generalization on the contents interpreted in Deng Xiaoping's National Theory with socialism characteristics, and expounds Deng Xiaoping's actual practices in solving the issues of nationalities.This article consists of 3 parts:Part 1: Make a definition of the nature of ethnic issues and acknowledge the equality of different nationalities and their independent rights in cultural and economic development. This part is the starting point of Deng Xiaoping's National Theory and its practices. It mainly reviews Deng Xiaoping's systematic analysis and re-recognition on the essence of ethnic issues and the reflection of ethnic relations, during the early period when China was newly founded, especially when he worked in the southwest area. He pointed out ethnic problems should not be equal to classic conflicts, the national working guideline at the early stage should target at the strengthening of national unity and promoting the common development and prosperity of all nationalities. Based on this, he also put forward a series of theories, such as national equality and unity theory, system of regional ethnic autonomy and common development and prosperity policy etc. All these brought great development in actual practices of national work. During the actual practice, Deng Xiaoping was dedicated to the elimination of ethnic estrangement and realization of national equality and unity, he made a wide selection of cadres from minority groups, and actively promoted the policy of regional ethnic autonomy, paid attention to the political, economic and cultural development and a lot of concerns to the improvement in minority regions, he also took the leadership of peaceful liberation of Debit, and participated in solving a lot of important issues after the liberation. The rich working experience of Deng Xiaoping and his viewpoint to the national issues at the primary stage of socialist country, built up a foundation for his theories and practices, which was gradually formed in his later stage of reform and opening up and socialism modernization. Part 2: The theme of present national issues is to speed up the development in minority regions.This part is the breakthrough of Deng Xiaoping's National Theory and development of its practices. It mainly demonstrates the breakthrough and success in the theories made by Deng Xiaoping. After the third plenary session of the 11th Central Committee, our country entered into the new stage of reform and opening up, centered by economic construction, as the core of the 2nd generation leadership, Deng Xiaoping adhered to the principle of combining Marxism National Theory with our actual situation as a multi-nationality country, giving a overall view to the economic construction, in order to keep up with the new times and the development demand of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It's reflected in the following aspects: In order to narrow the development gap between the minority regions and Han nationality and the eastern part, Deng Xiaoping realized the theme of the current ethnic issues was to speed up the development in regions of minority groups, with a key work to make a further opening up in the minority regions. Deng Xiaoping brought forward the thought of two overall situations at this period of time, the Two Overall Situations Thought were closely interconnected, dialectic and unified, it's the enrichment and development to the theory of national equality and unification and the policy of final realization of common better-off, it's the strategic measure of speeding up the development in minority regions, also a great innovation of Deng Xiaoping's National Theory. With the carrying out of Two Overall Situations Thought, Deng Xiaoping gave a consideration to the new situation, and further promoted the reform and opening up in the minority regions, which brought a comprehensive resumption and development in the policy of regional ethnic autonomy, national policies were gradually legalized and completed, he further came up with a series of methods with great significance, for the exploitation and development in the central and western minority regions.Part 3: The great significance of Deng Xiaoping National Theory and its new stage of development in China. As an important part of Deng Xiaoping Theories, Deng Xiaoping National Theory played a guiding role in promoting the development of national theory and ethnic work carried out by Communist Party of China, under the new historical condition, the Communist Party of China also made a constant improvement and innovation to the national theory with Chinese characteristics. With a full and clear understanding to the basic characteristics of the national issues, it went further to the discussion of a series of new steps to take, the overall execution of the strategy of the development of western region, the objective of building a well-off society in an all-round way, the active construction of socialism harmonious society, the promotion of common prosperity of all nationalities.All in all, with the continuous effort over the half century, the new socialism national relation of equality, solidarity and mutual aids nowadays, is strengthening and completing step by step. However, the basic state condition at the primary stage of socialism now and in the long run, makes it a long and complicated historical process, to settle the ethnic issues and national unification and harmony, our country is still facing a lot of difficulties in reaching the national solidarity. The current urgency is, to adhere to the guidance of Deng Xiaoping National Theory, and to understand and handle the ethnic issues at the new socialism stage in a correct way; this is the key task of consolidated battlefront. Undoubtedly, under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping National Theory, the new generation of central leadership is going to attach the same importance to the ethnic issues in our country as before, and promote the smooth carrying out of ethnic work, in the course of building a well-off society in an all-round way and propelling the socialism modernization. With all nationalities strive with a joint effort and solidarity and seek for a common development and prosperity, the long term harmony and stability in China can be expected soon.