土家族研究中心是我校科研成果丰富、研究特色鲜明的学术机构。在学校党委和行政的领导下,该中心在科学研究、人才培养、学科建设以及为民族地区特别是土家族地区现代化建设服务方面做了大量工作,取得了显著成绩。我校土家族研究历史悠久,1950年土家族问题提出后,引起周恩来等党和国家领导人的高度重视,我校不少学者随即投入到 Tujia Research Center is our school rich scientific research, research distinctive academic institutions. Under the leadership of the party committees and administrative departments of the university, the center has done a great deal of work in scientific research, personnel training, discipline construction and the service for the modernization of the ethnic areas, especially in Tujia areas, and has achieved remarkable results. The Tujia Nationality Studies in our school has a long history. After the Tujia question was raised in 1950, it attracted the great attention of the party and state leaders such as Zhou Enlai. Many scholars of our school immediately invested