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Autonomous regions of China

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Field	Value
name	Autonomous regions
自治区
zh
map	[[File:China autonomous regions.svg	250px]]
category	Unitary state
territory	China
current_number	5 (Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet, and Xinjiang)
population_range	110,879,058
area_range	4,380,000 km2
government	Regional People's Government, Central People's Government
subdivision	Prefecture-level city, prefecture, league, sub-provincial autonomous prefecture, autonomous prefecture

自治区 zh

The autonomous regions () are one of the four types of province-level divisions in the People's Republic of China. Like provinces, an autonomous region has its own local government, but under the law of the People's Republic of China, an autonomous region has more legislative rights, such as the right to "formulate self-government regulations and other separate regulations." An autonomous region is the highest level of minority autonomous entity in China, which has a comparably higher population of a particular minority ethnic group.

There are five autonomous regions in China: Guangxi, Inner Mongolia (Nei Menggu), Ningxia, Tibet (Xizang), and Xinjiang.

History

Established in 1947, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region became the first autonomous region in the Chinese liberated zone. Xinjiang was made autonomous in 1955 after the PRC's founding, and Guangxi and Ningxia were made autonomous in 1958. Tibet was annexed by the People's Republic of China in 1951, and was declared an autonomous region in 1965. The designation of Guangxi and Ningxia as Zhuang and Hui autonomous areas, respectively, was protested by the local Han Chinese, who made up two-thirds of the population of each region. Although Mongols made up an even smaller percentage of Inner Mongolia than either of these, the ensuing Chinese Civil War gave little opportunity for protest.

Legal rights

Autonomous regions in China have no legal right to secede, unlike in the Soviet Union – the Law of the People's Republic of China on Regional Ethnic Autonomy, written in 1984, states that "each and every ethnic autonomous region is an inseparable part of the People's Republic of China," and that "any form of... separatism... is absolutely prohibited."

Public goods and services

In general, China's minority regions have some of the highest per capita government spending on education, among other public goods and services. Providing public goods and services in these areas is part of a government effort to reduce regional inequalities, reduce the risk of separatism, and stimulate economic development.

List of autonomous regions

Name in English	Map	Simplified Chinese
Pinyin	Abbreviation	Local name
SASM/GNC romanization (Language)	Capital	Designated
minority	Language	Pre-1949 ROC subdivision	Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region	Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region	Tibet Autonomous Region	Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region	Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
[[File:Inner Mongolia in China (+all claims hatched).svg	300px	thumb	left]]	内蒙古自治区
zh	{{linktext	蒙}}
zh
(IMAR)	{{MongolUnicode	ᠦᠪᠦᠷ}} {{MongolUnicode	ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠨ}} {{MongolUnicode	ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ}} {{MongolUnicode	ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠣ ᠣᠷᠣᠨ}}
mn (Mongolian)	Hohhot
(呼和浩特)	Mongol	Mongolian	Suiyuan, Chahar, Rehe, Liaobei, Xing'an, Gansu, and Ningxia
[[File:Guangxi in China (+all claims hatched).svg	300px	thumb	left]]	广西壮族自治区
zh	{{linktext	桂}}
zh
(GZAR)	Gvangjsih Bouxcuengh Swcigih (Standard Zhuang/Zhuang)	Nanning
(南宁; Nanzningz)	Zhuang	Zhuang, Standard Zhuang (Vahcuengh)	Guangxi (province)
[[File:Tibet in China (claimed hatched) (+all claims hatched).svg	300px	thumb	left]]	西藏自治区
zh	{{linktext	藏}}
zh
(TAR)
bo (Standard Tibetan)	Lhasa
(拉萨; )	Tibetan	Standard Tibetan	Tibet Area, Xikang
[[File:Ningxia in China (+all claims hatched).svg	300px	thumb	left]]	宁夏回族自治区
zh	{{linktext	宁}}
zh
(NHAR)		Yinchuan
(银川)	Hui	Dungan, Chinese	Ningxia (province)
[[File:Xinjiang in China (de-facto) (+all claims hatched).svg	300px	thumb	left]]	新疆维吾尔自治区
zh	{{linktext	新}}
zh
(XUAR)	شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى
ug (Uyghur)	Ürümqi
(乌鲁木齐; ئۈرۈمچی)	Uyghur	Uyghur	Xinjiang (province)

Statistics

Population

Administrative Division		National Share (%)	[2020 Census](2020-chinese-census)		[2010 Census](2010-chinese-census)	Total	7.85	110,879,058	101,725,350	93,740,118
url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/newsandcomingevents/t20110429_402722516.htm	title=Communiqué of the National Bureau of Statistics of People's Republic of China on Major Figures of the 2010 Population Census	publisher=National Bureau of Statistics of China	url-status = dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727021210/http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/newsandcomingevents/t20110429_402722516.htm	archive-date=2013-07-27	url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgb/rkpcgb/qgrkpcgb/t20020331_15435.htm	script-title=zh:现将2000年第五次全国人口普查快速汇总的人口地区分布数据公布如下	publisher=National Bureau of Statistics of China	url-status = dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829052024/http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgb/rkpcgb/qgrkpcgb/t20020331_15435.htm
Guangxi	3.55	50,126,804	46,026,629	43,854,538	42,245,765	36,420,960	20,845,017	19,560,822
Inner Mongolia	1.70	24,049,155	24,706,321	23,323,347	21,456,798	19,274,279	12,348,638	6,100,104
Ningxia	0.51	7,202,654	6,176,900	5,486,393	4,655,451	3,895,578	*	*
Tibet Autonomous Region	0.26	3,648,100	3,002,166	2,616,329	2,196,010	1,892,393	1,251,225	1,273,969
Xinjiang	1.83	25,852,345	21,813,334	18,459,511	15,155,778	13,081,681	7,270,067	4,873,608

Ethnic

Administrative Division		Titular Ethnic Group		Han Chinese		Other ethnic minorities
Xinjiang (Uyghur)
Tibet (Tibetan)
Inner Mongolia (Mongol)
Ningxia (Hui)
Guangxi (Zhuang)

Notes

References

"Regional Autonomy for Ethnic Minorities in China (2005)".
Dreyer, June Teufel. (1997). "Government Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asia and the Pacific". MIT Press.
(2015-08-27). "First Union Constitution".
"中华人民共和国民族区域自治法 – Law of the People's Republic of China on Regional Ethnic Autonomy".
(2006-08-31). "China's Fate as a Multinational State: a preliminary assessment". Journal of Contemporary China.
Lin, Shuanglin. (2022). "China's Public Finance: Reforms, Challenges, and Options". [[Cambridge University Press]].
"Communiqué of the Seventh National Population Census (No. 3)".

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