China passes 'ethnic unity' law in push for assimilation

China’s apical legislature connected Thursday passed an "Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law," formalizing Beijing’s long-running propulsion to fortify nationalist individuality and taste integration.

The authorities was approved astatine the closing gathering of the 4th league of the 14th National People’s Congress during its yearly parliamentary gathering successful Beijing.

State-affiliated media Xinhua antecedently reported that the instrumentality would question to codify "fostering a beardown consciousness of assemblage for the Chinese nation" into authorities policy. 

It would besides bolster high-quality improvement successful areas with ample taste number populations and beforehand what officials picture arsenic communal prosperity among China’s 56 taste groups.

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Ethnic number delegates get for the opening league of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference astatine the Great Hall of the People successful Beijing, March 4, 2026. (Vincent Thian/AP)

Li Hongzhong, vice president of the NPC Standing Committee, said the measurement was aimed astatine advancing the governance of taste affairs nether the regularisation of law.

"The radical of each taste group, each organizations and groups of the country, equipped forces, each Party and societal organization, each company, indispensable forge a communal consciousness of the Chinese federation according to instrumentality and the constitution, and instrumentality the work of gathering this consciousness," the projected instrumentality reads, according to a translation from The Associated Press.

Academics and extracurricular observers accidental the proviso could undermine the taste individuality of taste minorities by requiring the usage of Mandarin successful compulsory acquisition and establishing a ineligible ground to prosecute individuals oregon organizations extracurricular China whose actions are deemed to undermine "ethnic unity," the AP reported.

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Xi Jinping, China’s president, center, Li Qiang, China’s premier, right, and Wang Huning, president of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, applaud during the closing league of the National People’s Congress astatine the Great Hall of the People successful Beijing, March 12, 2026. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

China’s colonisation stands astatine 1.44 cardinal arsenic of November 2020, according to the Seventh National Population Census released successful 2021 by the National Bureau of Statistics.

Of that total, 91.11% were Han Chinese and 8.89% belonged to taste number groups.

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Delegates wearing accepted covering respond astatine the closing league of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference astatine the Great Hall of the People successful Beijing, March 11, 2026. (Kevin Frayer/Getty)

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James Leibold, a prof astatine Australia’s La Trobe University, told the AP the caller measurement "puts a decease nail successful the party’s archetypal committedness of meaningful autonomy."

Rayhan Asat, a ineligible student astatine Harvard University, besides criticized the law, saying it "serves arsenic a strategical instrumentality and gives the pretext to authorities to perpetrate each sorts of quality rights violations."