邓小平在新中国建立不久的1950年就曾指出:“马列主义是能够解决民族问题的。”中国共产党历来高度重视民族工作,视民族问题为无产阶级革命和社会主义建设总问题的一部分,从建党以来一直努力探寻,自新中国成立后、尤其是党的十一届三中全会以来,在建设中国特色社会主义理论和党的基本路线指导下,我国的民族工作更多地转移到加快少数民族经济发展的正确道路上来,明确把发展作为现阶段解决民族问题的核心、民族工作的前进方向和根本任务。这是我们党关于民族问题理论的重大突破。 Deng Xiaoping pointed out in the late 1950 that “Marxism-Leninism can solve the ethnic problems.” "The Chinese Communist Party has always attached great importance to ethnic work and regarded ethnic issues as part of the overall proletarian revolution and the socialist construction. Since the founding of the party, we have been working hard to find out and rehabilitate China since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, especially since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, under the guidance of the theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics and the party’s basic line, The correct path for the economic development of ethnic minorities has come to a clear development of development as the core of the settlement of ethnic issues at this stage, the forward direction and fundamental task of ethnic work. This is a major breakthrough made by our party on the theory of ethnic issues.