Based on the lessons of history, Hu Weidong believes that in order to solve the ethnic issue, it is necessary to have a relatively fair ethnic policy, but the local ethnic structure is more important. Although Xinjiang has ushered in unprecedented stability and prosperity since the People's Liberation Army entered Xinjiang, the population of all ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has skyrocketed, but according to the first census (the national scale has not yet been completed, but the northwest region has been completed. The total number of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang is more than 2 million, with the largest populations of Uyghurs and Kazakhs just breaking through the 1 million mark (Note 1).

With the mobilization power of New China, which is far superior to that of the Republic of China, and the incomparable appeal of Taizu, it is not difficult to mobilize more than one million young people from the interior to Xinjiang every year, and as long as the population ratio is completely reversed, and the Han people (Han and other Chinese-speaking ethnic groups) account for more than eighty percent of the total population, Xinjiang will become the second northeast

But as a traverser, Hu Weidong knows that things are not so simple, in fact, in the first 30 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially in that special period, the central government has always insisted on mobilizing a large number of educated youths to the border areas, which has greatly changed the local ethnic composition, the Han people accounted for more than half of the time, and the ethnic relations in the same period were even better than later, but in the end, due to policy changes, most of the educated youths in Xinjiang once they had the right to choose freely and returned to the east, coupled with the implementation of the one-child system later, As a result, the demographic structure was rapidly reversed, and the efforts of the first three decades were ultimately in vain

In order to avoid the recurrence of such regrets, as the first secretary of the Northwest Bureau. Hu Weidong had to think not only about bringing young people from the interior to Xinjiang, but also about trying to get them to come and not leave. This can only be done in a short period of time by relying on administrative orders alone, and it is inevitable that people will die in the future, but if Xinjiang can be developed into one of the most developed and prosperous regions in the country, I am afraid that it will not be possible to drive it away at that time, and people will continue to rush to Xinjiang to seek development, so that Xinjiang's ethnic problem can be completely solved.

Moreover, after Xinjiang's economic development has developed, the people of all ethnic groups will benefit from the benefits and will inevitably support the central authorities even more. Compared to the immediate benefits that the policy takes care of. The affluent life brought about by economic development is more reliable, and it is obtained by the labor of the people of all nationalities themselves, and it is not easy to breed the phenomenon of "liking and disliking work" and even "promoting rice and fighting against rice".

Another reason why Hu Weidong chose Xinjiang as the banner of the country's industrialization is that the local population of Xinjiang is not large. However, more than one-third of the young people from the mainland who come to Xinjiang have at least a junior high school education or above and a high level of Chinese. With such a level of education as a basis. They can easily be groomed to become highly qualified workers. At the current rate of migration from the interior to Xinjiang and universal education for the locals, the population that meets the industrialization requirements will account for more than 70 percent of Xinjiang's total population in five years, and more than 90 percent in ten years. At that time, it will only take another five years to build Xinjiang into an industrial area with the advanced level of Shijie, and undertake the important task of keeping up with the international advanced level and spreading industry and jishu to the whole country. At the same time, Xinjiang will also serve as a model area, so that those who worship foreign countries can see that China is not incapable of reaching the advanced level of Shijie, but that the foundation is poor and the country is large, so it is difficult to quickly make up for the overall gap

In contrast, although the three traditional industrial zones have a better foundation, their own population, especially the uneducated population, will be diluted to a large extent even if there is a great deal of success in industrial construction, and their deep-rooted agricultural social traditions and inadequate infrastructure (Note 2) will continue to have a negative impact on the establishment of an industrialized society.

Therefore, the total amount of industrial growth in these areas may be larger, but the rate of improvement is unlikely to be comparable to that of new industrial zones such as Xinjiang, and the high level of industry and jishu is quite necessary for China to keep up with or even catch up with the advanced level of Shijie in some fields. The starting point of new China's industry and technology in this time and space is much higher than in history, and it would be a pity if it started from the low end and slowly caught up as it did in history.

Hu Weidong's strategy is to take the lead in industrializing in a few conditional areas on the one hand, so as to avoid, or at least delay, the gap between China's advanced industries and the level of jishu that China has acquired through exchanges with foreign countries by the developed countries, and on the other hand, to develop low-end industries in those regions with relatively poor conditions to lay a solid foundation and provide "quantity" support for the industrialization of the whole country. In the future, when the average literacy rate of the whole country exceeds 80%, and the country has a population of 30 million to 50 million people entering a truly industrialized society, China will be able to become one of the most powerful industrialized countries in Shijie after only two and five years, just like the Soviet Union at the beginning, and with the population of China, it will definitely be much stronger than the Soviet Union at that time

Note 1: The new China of this time and space was much less influenced by the Soviet Union than in history, so it did not count many tribes with a population of thousands, or even only a few hundred, as a nation in order to pursue the largest number of nationalities in history, and naturally it would not be the same purely self-seeking trouble to design a unique script for them, which also greatly reduced the academic burden for the young people of those tribes, and they still had to learn a language of little use in history (and the state stipulates that they must learn it, and they cannot fail to learn it. As a result, he suffered a big loss in education, and even if there was a discount on scores, it was not enough to make up for it, and it was originally a policy to help support these backward tribes, but Zuihou received such a result, which is really speechless

Those with a population of less than 10,000 people are not counted as ethnic groups, so that a considerable part of those small tribes have been incorporated into the larger ethnic minorities, and many ethnic groups have taken off the hat of "ethnic minorities" in advance, but the largest increase in population is still the Han nationality, and the population of those small tribes that choose the ethnic group as "Han" is more than twice that of the other ethnic groups combined

Note 2: Although Xinjiang is also poor, it is much easier to meet the standards due to its small population. And because of Sheng Shicai's governance at the beginning (compared with most warlords in the Republic of China, Sheng Shicai still attached great importance to industrial construction. And the efforts of the liberated district government, Xinjiang now has the highest level of infrastructure in the country. (To be continued......)