Further Perfecting the Tax Division System and Intensively Promoting Economic Development in Ethnic Minority Areas A Conference Report

Between May 12 and May 14, the State Nationality Affairs Commission and the Ministry of Finance coordinated a symposium on the operation of the tax division system in ethnic minority areas in Ezhou City, Hubei Province. More than fifty representatives attended the meeting, most of them from the eight ethnic minority regions1 and the rest from some ethnic autonomous prefectures and counties in Hubei, Sichuan, Gansu, Jilin, Liaoning, Hunan, and Hainan provinces. The main object of the meeting was to report on the operation of the tax division system; to analyze problems of the current tax division system and their effect on the ethnic minority areas; and to study how to further perfect the tax division system, establish a scientific and standard transfer payment system, and promote rapid economic development in the ethnic minority areas. The deputy director of the State Nationality Affairs Commission, Ren Wenjing, and the deputy governor of Hubei province, Su Xiaoyun, attended the meeting and made important speeches.