民族研究的创新需要坚持实事求是、解放思想

Field Research and Open Mind are the Conditions for Developing Ethnic Study in China

由于当时的历史条件，我国建国初期系统接受了斯大林民族理论，以苏联为模式制定了一系列有关民族问题的制度和政策。建国五十多年来，中国社会和世界形势发生了天翻地覆的变化，我国各少数民族地区也出现了一些实际问题。为使我们的研究工作跟上时代的步伐，必须解放思想，拓展视野，深入实际进行调查研究，努力推动符合中国最新发展国情的理论创新和学术创新，并进而推动中国社会的制度创新。

China accepted Stalin＇s theory of nationality and established an administrative system and policies towards ethnic minorities in the 1950s. Since then, China and the world have experienced tremendous changes and there are new phenomena and issues appear in ethnic minority areas in China. In order to catch up the social changes, Chinese scholars should be more open-minded and learn the dynamics from the field research, and then the new progress in our knowledge can be achieved.