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Officially recognized ethnic groups receive or have received certain benefits over Han Chinese under the regional ethnic autonomy system, including affirmative action, exemptions from the one-child policy, designated seats in political organs and government support to preserve their culture.
[36] [better source needed] While only 6 of the 55 ethnic minorities are represented in the Central Committee, [37] the percentage of ethnic minority members in the Central Committee exceeds the percentage of ethnic minority population in China. Ethnic minorities only make up roughly 7.5% of China's population, whereas 92% are Han Chinese, [38 ...
The Tujia (Northern Tujia: Bifjixkhar / Bifzixkar, IPA: /bi˧˥ dʑi˥ kʰa˨˩/ /pi˧˥ tsi˥ kʰa˨˩/, Southern Tujia: Mongrzzir, /mõ˨˩ dzi˨˩/; Chinese: 土家族; pinyin: Tǔjiāzú; Wade–Giles: Tu 3-chia 1-tsu 2) are an ethnic group and, with a total population of over 8 million, the eighth-largest officially recognized ethnic minority in the People's Republic of China.
In a victory video posted to social media, clutching bricks of prize money and wearing the white-studded “hero’s sash” of China’s Yi ethnic minority, the 25-year-old thanked “all my Yi ...
Historical distribution map of linguistic groups in China. Han Chinese people, the largest ethnic group in China, are often wrongly referred to as "Chinese" or "ethnic Chinese" in English. [14] [15] [17] The Han Chinese also form a majority or notable minority in other countries, and they comprise approximately 18% of the global human ...
Mongols in China, [3] [4] also known as Mongolian Chinese, [5] [6] are ethnic Mongols who live in China. They are one of the 56 ethnic groups recognized by the Chinese government. As of 2020, there are 6,290,204 Mongols in China, a 0.45% increase from the 2010 national census. [1] [2] Most of them live in Inner Mongolia, Northeast China ...
The Gin, [2] or Jing people, [3] (Chinese: 京 族, Sino-Vietnamese: Kinh tộc; Vietnamese: người Kinh tại Trung Quốc) are a community of descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living in China. They mainly live in an area called the Jing Islands (京族三岛), off the coast of Dongxing, Fangchenggang, in the Chinese autonomous region ...
Ethnic groups in the country are the French and native minorities such as Corsicans, Bretons, Basques and Alsatians. In addition, numerous immigrants and their descendants live in France, including from Europe ( Italians , Spaniards , Portuguese , Romanians ), North Africa ( Algerians , Tunisians , Moroccans ), Sub-Saharan Africa ( Congolese ...