The national and ministerial scientific research projects he has presided over are: 1. "Socialist Democratic Political Construction and Political and Social Stability in Border Minority Areas" (the key project of the Ninth Five-Year Plan of the National Social Science Fund, I am the applicant and the actual host). 2. "Conditions, tasks and ways of political civilization construction in frontier minority areas" (the annual key project of the National Social Science Fund in 2003). 3. "Research on Inter-ethnic Political Integration in Multi-ethnic Countries" (Key Project of National Social Science Fund in 2007). 4. Theoretical Research on China's Frontier and Frontier Governance (National Social Science Fund Key Project 20 1 1) 5. "Research on Building a Harmonious Socialist Society in Frontier Multi-ethnic Areas" (Key Project of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research of Ministry of Education in 2005). 6. "Research on the present situation, problems and countermeasures of county-level government capacity in western China" (National Social Science Fund Project 200 1). 7. Research on the Construction of Rural Grassroots Political Power (Ninth Five-Year Plan of Humanities and Social Sciences of the State Education Commission). 8. "Research and Practice on Comprehensive Reform of Training Mode of Political and Legal Management Talents in Western Minority Areas" ("New Century Higher Education Reform Project" by the Ministry of Education).
The provincial scientific research projects he has presided over are: 1. "A Study on the Political Culture of Yunnan Minorities" (Yunnan Philosophy and Social Sciences Ninth Five-Year Plan). 2. "Research on the Basic Theory of Marxist Ethnic Politics" (the Tenth Five-Year Plan Project of Yunnan Philosophy and Social Sciences). 3. "Research on Hong Kong's Political Development" (supported by Yunnan Philosophy and Social Sciences Fund in 2004). 4. "Study on the Countermeasures of Building a Harmonious Socialist Society in Yunnan" (a major preliminary research topic in the 11th Five-Year Plan of Yunnan Province).