China Challenged to Unite Ethnic Groups

As China prepares to mark 60 years of communist rule, one of thegreatest challenges facing the country's rulers remains uniting China'sdiverse ethnic groups, as recent unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang provincedemonstrates. Ninety-two percent of China's 1.3 billion people areethnic Han Chinese,while the rest consists of a mix of 55 officially recognizedethnic minorities, from Mongols and Manchus, to Tibetans andMuslim Uighurs. Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports from Sichuan province.


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