党的十八大以来,以习近平同志为总书记的党中央高度重视民族问题和宗教工作,对事关全局和长远的重大问题作出重要论述,提出了一系列新观点、新论断、新要求,为做好新形势下的民族和宗教工作提供了基本遵循。湖北是一个多民族省份,是全国既有自治州又有自治县的8个省份之一。面对加快发展和改善民生的双重任务、开发建设和保护生态的双重矛盾,必须把加快少数民族和民族地区发展作为解决民族地区各种困难 Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as general secretary has attached great importance to ethnic affairs and religious work, made important expositions on major issues concerning the overall situation and the long term, put forward a series of new views, new assertions and new requirements, Provided the basic followings for doing a good job in ethnic and religious affairs in the new situation. Hubei is a multi-ethnic province and one of the eight provinces with autonomous prefectures and autonomous counties throughout the country. In the face of the dual tasks of accelerating development and improving people’s livelihood and the double contradictions of developing and protecting the ecology, we must speed up the development of ethnic minorities and ethnic areas as a solution to various difficulties in ethnic areas