The name of a nationality township shall be determined according to the local name plus the nationality name, except in special circumstances.
Ethnic townships, once established, shall not be revoked without the approval of the provincial people's government. Article 4 Ethnic townships should adhere to Scientific Outlook on Development, work hard on their own, develop economy, education, science and technology, culture, health and sports according to local conditions, and promote the coordinated development of socialist material civilization, political civilization and spiritual civilization. Article 5 Ethnic townships shall ensure the observance and implementation of the Constitution, laws and regulations in their townships, carry out publicity and education on ethnic theories, ethnic policies and ethnic legal systems, guarantee citizens of all ethnic groups the freedom of religious belief, use and develop their own spoken and written languages, maintain or reform their own customs and habits, and maintain and develop socialist ethnic relations of equality, unity and mutual assistance. Article 6 State organs at higher levels shall take the construction of ethnic townships as an important duty and take practical measures to support and help ethnic townships develop various undertakings and realize the prosperity and progress of all ethnic groups. Chapter II Construction of Political Power Article 7 The people's congresses in ethnic townships are local organs of state power in ethnic townships, and they elect deputies to the people's congresses in ethnic townships in accordance with the law.
The people's congresses of ethnic townships shall, in accordance with the limits of authority prescribed by the Constitution and laws, take specific measures suitable for ethnic characteristics, strengthen the construction of grass-roots political power, and promote all-round economic and social development. Article 8 The Presidium of the People's Congress of a nationality township shall have a chairman and a vice-chairman. Members of the presidium shall include citizens of the nationalities that have established ethnic townships. Article 9 The people's governments of ethnic townships are the executive organs of the people's congresses of ethnic townships and the local state administrative organs of ethnic townships.
The people's governments of ethnic townships shall, as far as possible, be equipped with the personnel of the nationalities and other ethnic minorities who have established ethnic townships. The head of a nationality township shall be a citizen of the nationality that established the nationality township. Tenth state organs at higher levels should take care of the nationalities and other ethnic minorities who have established ethnic townships and actively train and use minority women cadres when they are equipped and hired civil servants for ethnic townships.
Ethnic townships should actively cultivate professional and technical talents of ethnic minorities and introduce all kinds of talents. Eleventh state organs at higher levels shall send outstanding cadres to work in ethnic townships; Select outstanding cadres from ethnic townships to work in state organs at higher levels.
The people's governments at or above the county level shall formulate specific measures to give special care to the wages, professional titles and welfare benefits of cadres and various professional and technical personnel who have worked in ethnic townships with difficult conditions for a long time. Chapter III Economic Construction Article 12 Ethnic townships shall, according to their resource advantages and market demand, formulate medium-and long-term plans for economic and social development, rationally adjust the economic structure, accelerate the development of the non-public economy, improve the investment environment and promote economic and social development. Thirteenth people's governments at or above the county level shall regularly study the economic construction of ethnic townships, implement classified guidance, and give special support in terms of funds, technology and talents. Fourteenth people's governments at or above the county level and their relevant administrative departments shall give priority to the arrangement and investment of water, electricity, roads, postal services, communications and other infrastructure projects in ethnic townships, and give priority to supporting the construction of small towns and drinking water for people and animals.
If the county-level financial resources are not self-sufficient, the funds for infrastructure construction in ethnic townships under its jurisdiction shall be given appropriate subsidies by provinces and prefectures (cities). Fifteenth people's governments at or above the county level and their relevant administrative departments should give priority to ethnic townships and help them develop distinctive economic and social undertakings when arranging various special funds. Sixteenth financial departments at or above the county level shall increase the financial transfer payments to ethnic townships, and the coefficient used in calculating the general transfer payments to ethnic townships shall be 5 percentage points higher than that of non-ethnic townships.
If the financial resources at the county level are not self-sufficient, the financial transfer payments of ethnic townships under their jurisdiction shall be subsidized in the financial transfer payments of the provinces, prefectures (cities) to the counties. Seventeenth ethnic townships that set up budgets should set up ethnic mobile funds; In ethnic townships where there is no budget, the county-level financial budget should arrange a certain amount of ethnic mobile funds, which should be used exclusively for textbooks, miscellaneous fees, stationery and food subsidies for poor students, medical assistance for poor farmers and subsidies for drinking water difficulties for people and animals. Eighteenth people's governments at or above the county level shall guarantee the salaries of administrative personnel in ethnic townships, the normal operation of organs and the expenditure of public service funds such as basic education.
In the process of implementing the financial budget, ethnic townships make independent arrangements for the use of funds with excess income and expenditure balance. Nineteenth people's governments at or above the county level shall give priority to housing projects, food and clothing projects and poverty alleviation projects in poor villages.
People's governments at or above the county level shall arrange relevant departments and units to contact poverty alleviation work in poor ethnic townships. Twentieth ethnic townships should take effective measures to protect natural resources, implement national laws, regulations and policies on environmental protection, and realize sustainable development.
People's governments at or above the county level shall help ethnic townships to protect and rationally develop and utilize forest resources, carry out afforestation, and appropriately increase capital investment in forest resources protection and afforestation in ethnic townships.
Forestry administrative departments at or above the county level shall, according to the situation of forestry resources in ethnic townships, take care of the distribution of commercial timber cutting indicators. In ethnic townships, the afforestation funds collected by citizens, legal persons and other organizations for commercial forest harvesting shall be returned to the owners and operators of forest rights in full; The afforestation fund levied by the state and provincial investment in harvesting artificial commercial forests will be returned in full to ethnic townships for special use in forestry development.
The administrative departments of agriculture, forestry and poverty alleviation at or above the county level shall help ethnic townships develop alternative energy sources such as biogas in a planned way, and give subsidies to the construction of alternative energy facilities.