由中国社会科学院科研局管理、民族学与人类学研究所组织实施的国家社会科学基金特别委托项目、中国社会科学院“创新工程”重大专项课题《21世纪初中国少数民族地区经济社会发展综合调查》项目,已于2013年正式启动。新中国成立后,尤其是改革开放和实行西部大开发以来,中国各民族经济社会在全面转型中发生了深刻变化,而民族地区经济发展的不平衡性及各种相关问题日益成为制约民族经济社会发展的主要因素。全面客观地认识这些问题,是全面促进21世纪中国少数民族经济社会发展的前提。该项目将以民族学、人类学田野调查的方式,客观反映新中国建立后特别是改革 Special Commissioned by the National Social Science Fund, organized by the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, CASS, “Key Project of Innovative Engineering” of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences “Integrated Economic and Social Development in the Ethnic Minority Areas in Early 21st Century Investigation ”project, was officially launched in 2013. Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up and the great development of the western region, profound changes have taken place in the overall transformation of the Chinese national economy and society. The imbalance in the economic development in the ethnic areas and various related issues have increasingly become factors restricting the national economic and social development The main factor of development. A full and objective understanding of these issues is a precondition for the comprehensive promotion of the economic and social development of China’s ethnic minorities in the 21st century. The project will be based on ethnology, anthropology fieldwork to objectively reflect the new China after the establishment of the reform in particular