In order to meet the needs of serving the Anti-Japanese War,resolve well the issues of minzu unity,cultivate more high-quality minzu cadres quickly.The CPC Central Committee and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningsia Border Region government decided to establish a minzu college in Yan'an.People now often call it Yan'an Minzu College in their memory and research.The reason why the word “Yan'an” was specifically written in front of the name of Minzu College,it not only expresses the deep memory of the 13-year glorious period of the CPC,but also contains the high affirmation and glorification of the great achievements made by the college as well as highlights its special status in Yan'an period and even in the history of Chinese higher education.Founded in 1941,the Yan'an Minzu College was born on the basis of the theoretical exploration and practical foundation for the CPC Central Committee and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningsia Border Region Government to initially deal with ethnic issues.Its establishment is conducive to further strengthening minzu culture and education,better uniting the broad masses of minzu minorities,facilitating the more effective conduct of minzu united front work,maximizing the strength of the anti-Japanese camp,and helping to better integrate minzu forces to more directly and forcefully attack the brutal aggression of the Japanese imperialists and the reactionary rule of the autocratic dictatorship of the Kuomintang government.Yan'an Minzu College upholds the Party's education policy during the period of the Anti-Japanese War,and has always focused on the core goal of training minzu cadres.It has actively carried out highly specific theoretical teaching activities and actively participated in political learning activities such as Yan'an Rectification,Mass Production Movement,etc.A variety of extracurricular activities were carried out.These all reflect the unique orientation and characteristics of running a school of the Minzu College.In the course of more than two years of schooling,Yan'an Minzu College has played a unique role in cultivating minzu talents,promoting minzu unity and promoting China's revolutionary process.It has carried on the positive attempt to the minzu theory research,the minzu policy formulation,the minzu education development,the minzu pillar cultivation of CPC and so on,has accumulated the rich practical experience,indicated the further development direction.At the same time,it also initially answered the historic and worthful question of “cultivating what kinds of minzu cadres and how to cultivate minzu cadres”.It is the CPC's first college to engage in minzu education,the cradle to cultivate minority cadres,the important research base of the CPC's theory and policy,the experimental field of minzu unity and equality,and the predecessor of a series of minzu colleges after the founding of New China.It has had an extremely wide-ranging and far-reaching impact in many areas such as the history of modern Chinese education,Chinese revolution,Communist Party of China,and minzu and religious studies. |