日前本人阅读了贵刊今年第 3期发表的李含琳同志的文章 ,很受启发 ,获益匪浅。但感到作者在文章开头关于民族自治地方的表述有误。作者根据《中国统计年鉴·1998》把我国民族自治地方写成“5个少数民族自治区、78个地级自治州市、64 3个县级自治旗或者自治县”。即便参照此书 , Recently, I read the article published by your magazine in the third issue of Comrade Li Nailin, which was very inspired and benefited a lot. However, I feel that the author made a false statement about the place of national autonomy at the beginning of the article. According to “China Statistical Yearbook 1998”, the author has written “China’s ethnic autonomous regions” into “5 ethnic autonomous regions, 78 prefectural-level autonomous prefectures and cities and 643 autonomous prefectural counties or autonomous counties.” Even with reference to this book,