20世纪80年代中后期,有关部门在《关于民族工作几个重要问题的报告》提出,要重视赫哲、俄罗斯、德昂等11个人口较少的少数民族的工作。2000年春节,费孝通建议国家民委关注几个人口较少民族的发展问题,认为“可先易后难,将这些人口较少民族问题先解决了,脱贫一个,宣布一个”。 In the mid-to-late 1980s, relevant departments proposed in the “Report on Several Important Issues concerning Ethnic Work” that they should pay attention to the work of 11 ethnic minorities such as He Zhe, Russia and De Ang. In the Spring Festival of 2000, Fei Xiaotong suggested that the State Ethnic Affairs Commission should pay attention to the development of several ethnic groups with fewer people. He said that “the problem of less population should be solved first, the problem of fewer ethnic groups should be solved first, the minority should be eliminated and the one announced.”