笔者自1987年起接手《新疆年鉴》科、教、文、卫、体育、社会、民族谱部类的编辑工作。在8年的编辑实践中，如何处理民族部类稿件偏弱的问题一直困扰着我，编辑部至今对此也仍无良策。在每年的编辑工作中，我们几乎无一例外地感到民族部类稿件偏弱，都要花费一定的力气去搜集有 Since 1987, the author has taken over the editorial work of “Yearbook of Xinjiang” in science, education, culture, health, sports, society and ethnic spectrum. In the 8 years of editing practice, how to deal with the issue of the weakness of the ethnical department’s publications has plagued me and the editorial department still has no good tactics to this day. In our annual editorial work, we almost certainly feel weakened ethnic departments, we must spend some effort to collect