略论元朝的统治政策对中国民族发展的意义

The Significance of the Ruling Policy of the Yuan Dynasty to the Ethnic Development of China

元朝是中国历史上第一个由少数民族统治的统一多民族国家,也是中国历史上政治制度变革过程中具有里程碑意义的一个历史朝代。元朝所推行的行省制度、驿传制度、屯田制度、土司制度等统治政策不仅将全国所有地区置于统一中央政权的统治之下,还加强了中央王朝对边疆民族地区的治理,促进了各民族间经济文化的交流与融合,进一步推进了中国以汉族为中心的多元一体格局的发展,并对后世中国行政区划的变革,政治体制的变迁,以及民族地区统治制度和今天民族区域自治制度的形成和发展产生了深远的影响。

The Yuan Dynasty was the first unified multi-ethnic its political institution transportation, farming nation ruled by ethnic power and the changes in under the strict control of the practiced the political systems of province, ftain, via which the whole country was put government, promoted ethnic contact and integration, propelled the formation of the unified multi-ethnic nation centered on the Han people, and thus paved the way for the future development of China＇ s administrative division, political system, governance of the ethnic regions and the ethnic autonomous system today.