伴随着改革开放和社会主义市场经济的进程，从云南、贵州、四川等地区迁入江苏省的少数民族同胞逐年增多，遍及全省13个地级市，且每年以10％左右的速度增长。他们在对江苏省经济文化发展产生深刻影响的同时，也使省里的民族关系趋于复杂，特别是迁入少数民族群众的贫困问题， With the process of reform and opening up and the socialist market economy, ethnic minorities moving to Jiangsu Province from areas such as Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan have been increasing year by year to 13 prefecture-level cities in the province, growing at a rate of about 10% annually. While they have had a profound impact on the economic and cultural development in Jiangsu Province, they have also complicated the ethnic relations in the province, especially the poverty that has moved into the minority nationalities.