本文认为江泽民继承和发展了邓小平的民族思想。他提出 ,正确处理民族问题是一个带根本性的问题 ;要继续巩固和发展社会主义的民族关系 ;加快民族地区的经济文化发展是民族工作的核心问题 ;要坚持和完善民族区域自治制度 This article holds that Jiang Zemin inherited and developed Deng Xiaoping’s national thought. He proposed that correctly handling the ethnic issue is a fundamental issue; it is necessary to continue consolidating and developing socialist ethnic relations; accelerating the economic and cultural development in ethnic regions is the core issue of ethnic work; and it is necessary to uphold and improve the system of ethnic regional autonomy