湖南是一个多民族省份,在三湘四水之间,散落着许多充满各自民族特色的少数民族,各民族呈大杂居、小聚居分布。省内民族地区集革命老区、边远地区、贫困地区和“三湘”文化特色区、“四水”源头区、生态屏障区等于一体,在全省改革发展稳定大局中具有重要地位。 Hunan is a multi-ethnic province. There are many ethnic minorities with their own national characteristics scattered among the three Xiangs and Four Rivers. All ethnic groups are inhabited by a large number of people and are scattered in small groups. The revolutionary areas, the remote areas, the impoverished areas and the “Sanxiang” cultural characteristic areas, the “four water” source areas and the ecological barrier areas in the ethnic areas in the province are equal in one and play an important role in the overall reform, development, and stabilization of the province .