“民族工作是一项常做常新的工作。”云南省民族事务委员会主任格桑顿珠在今年２月 ２２—２４日召开的全省民委工作会议上这样说。同样是回顾过去、总结经验、部署工作，但在新世纪的第一个春天召开的这次工作会议较之以往的工作会议，毋庸置疑地打上了新世纪的烙印。这里的“新”，不只是一个划时代概念的“新”，也是人们对民族工作在认识上、思路上、措施上的“新”，更是广大民族工作者精神面貌的“新”。从我们编辑的这组领导同志的重要讲话和各地（州、市）民委主任、民族宗教事务局局长的访谈中，你会得到真实的感受。 “Ethnic work is often a new work.” Ge Sidun Zhu, director of the Yunnan Ethnic Affairs Commission, said at a working meeting of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee held on February 22-24 this year. The same is a review of the past, summing up experience and deployment work. However, this working conference held in the first spring of the new century undoubtedly marked the new century when compared with the previous working conference. The “new” here is not only a “new” concept of epoch-making concepts, but also a “newness” in understanding, mentality and measures of people’s work in the nationalities as well as a “newness” in the spiritual outlook of the vast number of ethnic workers. From the important speeches made by our group of leading comrades and the interviews held by the directors of the Discipline Committee of various prefectures and cities and the director of the State Department of Religious Affairs, you will get real feelings.