铸牢城市少数民族中华民族共同体意识的价值、困境及路径

大量少数民族由农村迁移至城市，既为城市的发展注入了活力，也为民族工作和城市治理带来了挑战。铸牢城市少数民族中华民族共同体意识是做好民族工作的关键，能够帮助少数民族更好地适应并融入城市生活，并有助于在城市地区进一步做好民族团结进步示范创建工作，有效破解城市治理的难题。应从完善保障城市少数民族合法权益的机制和体制，努力提高城市少数民族贫困群众的生活质量与水平，关注并及时满足城市少数民族的精神需求，充分调动和发挥城市常住少数民族群众的积极性和带头作用四个方面去铸牢城市少数民族中华民族共同体意识。

Values, Dilemmas, and Pathways of Forging a Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation among Urban Ethnic Minority Peoples

This paper states that forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation among urban ethnic minority peoples can 1) make the ethnic minority people who move to the city experience the warmth of the city, strengthen their confidence and courage while living in cities and improve their urban quality of life; 2) let them personally experience equality among all ethnic groups, and further enhance social cohesion and mutual regard among the people from different ethnic groups, which is conducive to a good atmosphere and ethnic unity in the city, helping all regions to effectively achieve ethnic unity and progress. This research further proposes that if a city cannot effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of ethnic minorities, they might have a psychological gap, which might influence the degree of their social trust or recognition of a sense of community of the Chinese nation. In addition, if the problem of poverty of low-income groups of urban ethnic minorities remains unresolved for extended period of time, likely leading to a lack of stability in urban development, eroding the awareness and understanding of ethnic minority peoples regarding the consciousness of the Chinese national community. However, it should be noted that in actual urban management work, economic well-being is looked after the most, and the spiritual needs of the ethnic minorities to practice their culture and customs are insufficiently taken into account. As far as the current state of urban ethnic social interaction is concerned, publicity and ideological instructive work have been lacking.Based on related research, the following paths for forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation among metropolitan ethnic minorities are recommended in this paper: First of all, the mechanism and system for protecting the legitimate rights and interests of urban ethnic minorities should be improved, and improve as well as the efficiency of our work in handling of addressing ethnic minority affairs. Secondly, the poverty problem of low-income ethnic minority groups in urban areas should be solved, and strive to improve their quality of life. Only when the quality of life of urban ethnic low-income groups is effectively improved, can the great goal of common development, common prosperity, for all members of ethnic communities come true. Thirdly, communication channels between governmental departments and the common ethnic people ought to be opened, and governmental staff should regularly go to see ethnic minority people, listen to their voices, fully understand their grievances and appeals, and help them solve practical problems on time. Fourthly, based on situation analyses of cities, one should fully mobilize and give play to the initiative and leadership of permanent urban ethnic minority residents, constantly upgrade the carrier, content, and style of publicity in order to show the way urban ethnic minorities to forge a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation.