摘要
China has 56 separate ethnic groups,and the Hui is the second only in size to the majority Han. With a population of 9.82 million (2000 census figure), Hui people are widely scattered and can be found in most counties and cities throughout China. However,most of them live in northwestern autonomous regions and provinces such as Ningxia, Xinjiang, Qinghai and Gansu. There are also many Hui communities in Shanxi, Hebei, Tianjin,Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu,
