The original hypothesis of this research was that China has developed public policies to protect the rights and interests of its ethnic minorities. Using literature and web materials from different sources, however, the authors were unable to obtain findings to test this hypothesis. Nevertheless, from an analysis of 31 articles and books, eight research and news websites, and three Chinese government websites, we found three discussion areas on the relationship between public policies and ethnic minorities in China. These three areas are the characteristics of ethnic minorities in China, the theoretical underpinnings of studies of ethnic minorities in China, and recent migration patterns that affect ethnic minority populations. Limited by using scarce resources from existing literature, including general demographic and government websites, this article analyses whether policies have been formed to help ethnic minorities to be economically and politically productive.

本研究最原先的假設是中國已發展了一系列的公共政策以保護境內少數民族的權益。但是，作者無法從不同的文獻和網絡等獲得資料以考證這個假設。不過，通過對三十一篇文章和書籍，八個研究及新聞網站，和三個中國政府的官方網站的分析後，我們發現有關研究中國公共政策和少數民族關系的三個範疇。這三個領域包括:中國少數民族的特征，中國少數民族的理論基礎研究，以及近代移民模式對少數民族的影響。用現今有限的文獻，包括一般人口資料和政府網站，本文分析了協助少數民族提高經濟和政治生產力的政策是否已經形成。

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