党的十八大以来,在继承中国共产党历代领导集体民族工作思想的基础上,习近平总书记就民族工作提出了一系列契合时代背景的新思想和新论述,内容涵盖了民族工作的所有重大方面,深刻回答了当前民族工作的一系列重大理论和实践问题,极大地丰富和发展了中国特色社会主义民族理论。认真学习,深刻领会习近平民族工作思想的新论述,对于新时期进一步做好我国民族工作具有十分重要的现实意义。Since the 18 th CPC National Congres s, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward a series of new discourses and ideas corresponding to the time, based on the succession of ethnic work thoughts made by generations of the collective leadership of the CPC. These discourses have covered every major aspect of ethic work, solved a bunch of significant problems both on theoretical and practical sides, enriched and developed the ethic theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to make a thorough study and understanding on these new discourses and ideas, for further improvement of ethic work of China in the new era