在全国各族人民深入贯彻邓小平同志南巡谈话和中央政治局全体会议精神,进一步深化改革、扩大开放、奋力推进我国现代化建设事业的新形势下,认真探讨民族地区的领导工作是很有必要的。我国民族地区地域辽阔,面积占全国的64.3％,县级以上的行政单位有600多个。 Under the new situation of thoroughly carrying out Comrade Deng Xiaoping’s southern tour talk and the plenary meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Political Bureau, and further deepening the reform, opening wider to the outside world and pushing forward the cause of our country’s modernization, it is quite necessary for the people of all ethnic groups across the country to conscientiously explore the leading work in the ethnic minority areas . China’s ethnic areas have a vast territory, accounting for 64.3% of the country’s total. There are over 600 administrative units above the county level.