Study On Changes, Causes And Countermeasures Of The Population Of Ethnic Minorities In Inner Mongolia

Population has always been an indispensable part of study of ethnology. Based on researching on the trends and the reasons of the changes of population in Inner Mongolia, appropriate measures would be produced to solve the problem. It is very important to draft the development plans of society and economics and to build a harmonious society in Inner Mongolia.Based on the empirical analysis, the changes of population in Inner Mongolia have been discussed in the paper. The paper is based on the sequence of proposing questions, analyzing the problems and solving the problems. Data in the paper are from"Compilation of Demography of Public Security Bureau in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region"(1980~2007). The article focuses on the study of the population how are influenced by the social factors and places emphasis on important effects of the policy environment, cultural environment (including the economic environment).Based on the data of the population in Inner Mongolia in every year, it can be found that minority population are rising year after year, and the growth rate of the minority population is far greater than that of the Han. In ethnic minorities, the natural population growth rate of Mongolian and Manchu is higher than others.The primary reason of rapid growth of minority population is minority policies. Because of the beneficial policies for minority, such as minority cadres policy, minority employment policy, minority education policy, and so on, some people altered their nationalities in order to enjoy the minority policies, and minority are selected by the children who are born in those families that are intermarriage with minority. I think that what nationality a people should attribute to should be decided by his emotion select of the people, not the family origin, and more than the real interest. The fact that is the rapid growth of minority population can not be ignored. Because some people are driven by beneficial minority policies to select minority nationalities, thus it is not only greatly increasing the cost to implement the minority policies, but also promoting the contradiction between different nationalities to produce.The population growth rate in Eastern Inner Mongolia is higher than that in the Midwest. Local herders (Mongolian-based) experienced the change of modes of production from nomadic production, to agricultural and pastoral production, and to agricultural production. Population growth and agricultural production may influence each other and agricultural production leads to the rapid population growth. The culture roots to choose the agricultural production and not the animal husbandry are that many people think that the mode of agricultural production is more advanced than that of animal husbandry. However, regardless of geographical environment the agricultural production is chosen as the dominant mode of production, it leads to the animal husbandry going down gradually. And the beautiful scenery of"cattle and sheep emerged behind wind"is disappearing gradually and only small number of excellent farm exists. Thus, ecological problems such as desertification, sandstorm, are arising because of farms decreased, and it is not just the ecological problems of Inner Mongolia. Whether a nationality is strong and prosperous or not, it is not decided by the large national population, but the national quality and the strength of total economy. Therefore, we should improve the quality of the nationality as the most important population policy. In addition, it is of great urgency to control the minority population. And those people who really need to attend should be considered when those policies for minority are implemented, rather than on the basis of Registered Permanent Residence to determine who should be attend. All these should be treated differentially according to actual situation.A suitable dominant culture must be constructed based on the region's natural ecological conditions. In the approaching long period time, the dominant culture of grassland areas should be an open system that is based on the nomadic culture and all outstanding human civilization including agricultural civilization, industrial civilization and the information civilization should be fully absorbed.