我国少数民族地区的经济建设，是有中国特色社会主义现代化建设的重要组成部分。研究新时期如何提高少数民族素质，加快少数民族地区经济、社会发展步伐这一问题，对于加强民族团结，维护祖国统一，保持社会稳定，加速有中国特色社会主义现代化建设的进程，具有特殊重要的意义 The economic construction of the ethnic minority areas in our country is an important part of the socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics. To study how to improve the quality of ethnic minorities in the new era and speed up the pace of economic and social development in ethnic minority areas is of special importance to strengthening ethnic unity, safeguarding the unification of the motherland, maintaining social stability and speeding up the socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics significance