A Research On The Minority Nationality Cadres’ Education Of The Chinese Communist Party During The New Period (1978-2012)

Since reform and opening up，the Communist Party of China has been attachinggreat importance to the education of minority nationality cadres and take it as thestrategic and groundwork concerning the overall situation of the whole Party. For thirtyyears, guided by the Marxism, centering on reform and opening up and the practice ofbuilding socialism with Chinese characteristics, aligning with the reality of minoritynationality cadres, our Party puts forwards new ideas, takes new measures and newdeploys, and carries on the minority nationality cadre education through multi-channel,at multi-level, and in multi-form. Groups of cadres who combine ability with politicalintegrity have been trained. This does not only raise the scientization level and formthe system with Chinese characteristics of the minority nationality cadre education, butalso maintain the national stability and unity effectively, and promote the developmentof economic society of the minority nationality and the territory of nationality, andspeed up the process of building well-off society in an all-around way.The cadre educational thought of Marx and Engels and the minority andnationality cadre educational thought of Lenin, Stalin and Mao Zedong providetheoretical basis for our Party’s minority and nationality cadre education in the newperiod. Based on that, Deng Xiaoping, jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao gave theoreticalguidance on how to educate the minority nationality cadres. In the new period, theeducation of minority nationality cadres goes through three stages. They are therecover and adjustment stage, the institutionalization stage, and the standardizationstage. Be faced with different situation and tasks in different period, our Party carry onthe education of minority nationality cadres with different emphasis at different stages.The minority nationality cadre education plays an active historical function and helps our Party fulfill the tasks of different stages smoothly.In the new period, CCP constantly enriches and optimizes the contents of theminority nationality cadre education along with the new change of the situation of theworld, the nation, and the Party. It lays emphasis on raising the thinking, theoreticaland professional knowledge level of the minority nationality cadres and training theirability to govern. The chief contents of the minority nationality cadre educationinclude education on political theory, ethnic theory and ethnic policy education,ideological and moral education, the practical education of keeping the Party’sprogressiveness and purity, the professional cultural knowledge education and thetraining of the ability to govern. This is the inheritance of the contents of the minoritynationality cadre education before the new period, and incorporates the distinct eracharacteristics by advancing with the times. In the new period, the basic approaches tothe minority nationality cadre education are the education of full-time cadre trainingagency, the education of university and moderate speciality school, in-serviceeducation and practical training. In this new period, CCP adhere to broaden the way ofthe minority nationality cadre education to satisfy the need of training the minoritynationality cadres on a large scale and the need of substantial quality improvement ofthe themFor thirty years, the minority nationality cadre education of CCP is featured bylaying emphasis on the strategic design of it, on the training of the ability to govern, onthe innovation of the education model, on the textbook compilation of it, and on theperfection of the minority nationality cadre policy. The historical experience of theminority nationality cadre education can be summarized as serving the general worksituation of our Party which is the fundamental requirement of the minority nationalitycadres education, carrying the education on the Marxism national viewpoint which isits the important task, advancing with the times which is its time feature, educatingwith hierarchical classification which is its basic method, perfecting the system whichis its important means, and expanding the channels which is its significant guarantee. The realistic enlightment of the minority nationality cadres education is takingstrengthening the leadership of the Party as the fundamental guarantee of the minoritynationality cadre education, taking constructing the three-type Party as its importantgoal, taking carrying on ideological and political education as its primary task, takingestablishing the scientific system as its significant means, taking reinforcing theopen-type teaching staff construction as its important guarantee.In short, starting from the theoretical basis of the minority nationality cadreeducation, on the basis of systematically summarizing the practice of the minoritynationality cadre education in the new period, the author of the thesis made an in-depthstudy of the chief contents, the basic approaches, the chief features, the historicalexperience and the realistic enlightment of the minority nationality cadre education andmade generalization and appraisal on the new period minority nationality cadreeducation of CCP to provide helpful reference for thorough advancement of theminority nationality cadre education at present and in the future.