《福建省少数民族权益保障条例》(以下简称《条例》)经多年的酝酿、讨论修改,于1999年10月22日经省九届人大常委会第十四次会议审议通过,并于2000年1月1日起施行。我省是少数民族散杂居地区,少数民族成份54个,人口50万,占全省总人口的1.54%,其中畲族人口37万余人,占全国畲族人口的 The “Regulations on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Ethnic Minorities in Fujian Province” (hereinafter referred to as the “Regulations”) have been deliberated and approved by the 14th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth People’s Congress on October 22, 1999 after deliberation and revision for many years. January 1 will come into effect. The province is a mixed ethnic minority areas, 54 ethnic minorities, a population of 500,000, accounting for 1.54% of the total population of the province, of which more than 37,000 She population, accounting for the national population of She