1st Edition

China's Ethnic Minorities Social and Economic Indicators

By Rongxing Guo Copyright 2013
242 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The majority of China’s population is the Han. Till now, China has officially identified, except for other unknown ethnic groups and foreigners with Chinese citizenship, 55 ethnic minorities. Ethnic minorities vary widely in size in China. With a population of more than 15 million, the Zhuang have been the largest minority group, and the Lhoba, with only 2 thousand or more, the... Read more
Chapter 1 Population; Chapter 2 Employment and Income Distribution; Chapter 3 People’s Livelihood; Chapter 4 Agriculture and Rural Economy; Chapter 5 Education and Science and Technology; Chapter 6 Culture and Public Health; Appendix AAppendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E;

Biography

Rongxing Guo is Professor and Head of the Regional Economics Committee, Regional Science Association of China (RSAC) at Peking University, Beijing. He has served with the OECD in Paris and at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. He has taught at China University of Mining and Technology, and Korea University, Trier University in Germany, and Gakushuin University in Tokyo.