新的世纪,我国高等教育面临着新的挑战、新的要求,民族高等教育必将担负起新的使命。面对这种变化和挑战,民族院校必须以创新的精神,深化教育教学改革,使之不断跟上时代前进的步伐,更加适应新形势新任务的要求。中南民族大学建校51年来为国家培养了4万余名少数民族干部和各类专门人才,对国家统一、民族团结、民族地区社会经济文化的建设和发展作出了重大贡献。面对新的 In the new century, China’s higher education is facing new challenges and new requirements. Ethnic higher education will surely assume a new mission. In the face of such changes and challenges, the national institutions of higher learning must deepen the education and teaching reform in an innovative spirit so that they will keep pace with the times and adapt more to the requirements of the new situation and new tasks. In the 51 years since the founding of the Central South University for Nationalities, it has trained more than 40,000 ethnic minority cadres and specialized personnel for the country and made significant contributions to the construction and development of the country’s reunification, national unity and socio-economic and cultural development in ethnic regions. Face new