新民主主义革命时期我党推动昭通地区民族团结进步的实践

The CPC’s Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress in the Zhaotong Region during the New Democratic Revolution

党的组织在昭通地区成立之始就把解决民族问题列为重要工作任务。面对复杂环境和党组织力量薄弱的客观现实,采取以建立健全党的民族工作机制为优势,增进少数民族民生福祉为基础,培养少数民族骨干为抓手,广泛的新思想宣传为引领,壮大各民族的革命武装队伍为保障,建立民族统一战线为法宝的“六位一体”实践形式,取得了关键性成效。这一实践过程中形成了党在昭通地区民族工作的历史经验,即坚持党对民族工作的领导和加强民族干部培养相联系,增强对各民族群众的政治牵引力;坚持统一战线和铸牢中华民族共同体意识教育相融合,增强各民族群众的国家认同向心力;坚持民族工作和推动民族地区发展相结合,增强各民族群众交往交流交融的保障力。通过考察新民主主义革命时期党在昭通地区的民族工作,阐释坚持党对民族工作全面领导的重要意义,有利于引导我国各族人民更加坚定中国特色解决民族问题的道路自信。

The New Democratic Revolution was a period of exploration for the CPC(Community Party of China)in its carrying out of ethnic work and promotion of the development of ethnic unity and progress.Documentation shows that the Party’s firm leadership over ethnic policies during this period effectively promoted exchange,interaction,and integration among all ethnic groups,and cultivated a consciousness that all ethnic groups should unite as one family and work together with one heart and one soul.The Party's regional ethnic work in this period appeared to be a vivid miniature of the Party's overall ethnic work,which offers a high theoretical value for modern academic research and practical value for publicity and education.However,current theoretical studies on this issue are still relatively weak on the whole,mainly focusing on historical narration,and regularity and empirical refining are inadequate.In order to be able to effectively tackle the above problems,this paper takes the Zhaotong area,known as the“feudal fortress of Yunnan”as its research object to explore the CPC’s promotion of ethnic unity and progress in the Zhaotong region during this historical period of the New democratic revolution.Findings show that the main problems of the development of national unity and progress in the Zhaotong area during the period of the New Democratic Revolution were:1)The oppression of ethnic groups in the Zhaotong area was caused by strong feudal forces,and their manipulation of conflicts;2)a lack of social,cultural,and economic development factors counteracted societal unity and the pursuit of development among compatriots of all ethnic backgrounds;3)numerous armed groups that were infighting undermined the order of development in the region and reduced the space for the development of various ethnic communities.Faced with the objective reality of both the difficult situation in the Zhaotong area and a weak Party organization,the CPC decided to launch a“Six-Sphere Integrated Plan”to promote ethnic unity and progress in Zhaotong region;records show this plan worked quite well.Specifically,this“Six-Sphere Integrated Plan”aimed to take advantage of the establishment and improvement of the Party's ethnic working mechanism,take the improvement of the livelihood and welfare of ethnic minorities as its basis,the cultivation of a backbone for ethnic minorities as its starting point,a wide spread of new ideas as its guidance,the expansion of revolutionary armed resistance teams of all ethnic groups as its assurance,and the building up an united ethnic front as a superb weapon.In summary,based on the investigation of the Party's“Six-sphere integrated plan”of ethnic work in the Zhaotong area(where the three provinces of Yunnan,Sichuan,and Guizhou meet)during the period of New Democratic Revolution,together with a timely summary of the Party's experience in regional ethnic policy in this historical period,this study interprets the CPC’s political stance of upholding the people s supremacy and tries to explain the significance of upholding the Party's overall leadership over ethnic work against the background of“two overall situations”.This is conducive to guiding the Chinese people of all ethnic groups to have more confidence in the path of solving ethnic problems with Chinese characteristics.