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Ethnic minority autonomous areas receive additional state subsidies. [4] [5] Languages of officially recognized minorities are used in official government documents. [6] [non-primary source needed] Soon after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, 39 ethnic groups were recognized by the first national census in 1954.
Ethnic minorities in China are the non-Han population in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The PRC officially recognizes 55 ethnic minority groups within China in addition to the Han majority. [1] As of 2020, the combined population of officially-recognized minority groups comprised 8.89% of the population of Mainland China. [2]
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in China" The following 107 pages are in this category, out of 107 total. ... China Folk Culture Village; Ethnic minorities in China ...
Ethnic minorities constitute 8.49% or 113.8 million of China's population in 2010. During the past decades ethnic minorities have experienced higher growth rates than the majority Han population, because they are not under the one-child policy. Their proportion of the population in China has grown from 6.1% in 1953, to 8.04% in 1990, 8.41% in ...
The Hui nationality is the most widely distributed ethnic minority in China, and it is also the main ethnic minority in many provinces. There are 10,586,087 Hui people in China (2010 census), accounting for 0.79% of the total population, making them the third largest ethnic group after Han Chinese and Zhuang.
Miao folkdance - Guizhou, China. Miao is a word that the Chinese use to designate all the ethnic minority groups living in southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia.Miao is thus officially recognized by the Chinese government as one of the largest ethnic minority groups that has more than 56 official ethnicities and dialects.
The list below outlines the distribution of the nationalities of China among provinces and province-level entities of the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.) according to the census of 2000. The provinces and province-level entities are listed by region. The classification of ethnic groups follows the official classification of the PRC.
China’s ethnic groups emerged about 3000 years ago, with the Huaxia people being the first. There is fossil evidence of different groups with a wide distribution, for example fossils of the Yuanmou people have been found in the Yunnan province of China from 1.7 million years ago. [4]