The Future of Yanbian: A Study on the Image of China's Model Autonomous Prefecture in the Early 21st Century

Author: Pan Longhai
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: After more than four years of painstaking efforts by dozens of experts, scholars, and officials, this manuscript is finally ready to be published. This event holds extraordinary significance for two reasons. On one hand, it lies in the comprehensiveness, scientific nature, foresight, and guiding role of the book's content in social practice. On the other hand, the very process of this labor is one of creativity and action. For the "model autonomous prefecture," it is not only in China but perhaps worldwide that such a concept is a "new phenomenon." Many aspects lack precedent, and the book's content is entirely an exploratory effort under the guidance of the Party's line, principles, and policies, combined with the reform and development realities of Yanbian. It showcases a rare and valuable spirit of innovation. In the early 21st century, the model autonomous prefecture in China will be the glorious dream of the 2.2 million people of all ethnic groups in Yanbian. We have every reason to believe that under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping's theory of building a socialist society with Chinese characteristics and Comrade Jiang Zemin's important thought of the "Three Represents," with the care and support of the Party and the state, and with the unremitting efforts of the people of all ethnic groups in Yanbian, this glorious dream will surely unfold like a vibrant and colorful scroll across the 42,700 square kilometers of Yanbian.