我国是一个统一的多民族的国家.在这个有56个民族的多民族大家庭中,少数民族人口占总人数的8%,而在被称之为中国“西部”(包括西南、西北部)的少数民族地区中,少数民族人口占该地区人口近1/5,占全国少数民族总人口的78%.因此,西部地区在我国少数民族问题中占有举足轻重的地位.民族地区的经济发展与繁荣问题,不仅仅是单纯的经济问 Our country is a united and multi-ethnic country where ethnic minorities make up 8% of the total population of the multiethnic population of 56 ethnic groups, but in what is called the “western” (including southwest and northwest In the ethnic minority areas, ethnic minorities account for nearly one-fifth of the population in the region and account for 78% of the total population of ethnic minorities in the country, so that the western region plays an important part in the ethnic minorities in our country. And prosperity, not just a simple economic question