Zhou Enlai is one of the founders of national theory of the CPC.

He spred systematically the national theory and policies of the Soviet Union of 1920s and 30s and used the Marxism to study and explore the national problems.

As a part of Mao zedong thought, the party s national theory was be able to be constantly developed and improved during the war of againsting Japan.

Marxist Ethnic Theory: the Theoretical Guidance to the Settlement of the Ethnic Issues in China;

Summarization of the Studies on Deng Xiaoping s Ethnic Theory across the 20~(th)-21~(th) Centuries;

His ethnic theory is rich in content and profound in meaning.

Li Weihan pointed out a different set of ethnic theories suited to China and ethnic policies based on them through intergrating the ethnic theory of Marxism with the practice of China.

In the more than fifty years since the founding of new China,Chinese Communist Party,guided by Marxism ethnic theories,has established a new socialist ethn.

There are three forms of the nationality theory and policy, Russian, China and Yugoslavia form.

After its introduction into China in the early 20th century, Marxist theory of nationality was spread and accepted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and then acquired great development in China and became the theoretical source of the Chinese discipline of nationality theory.

Deng Xiaoping s nationality theory is the new developing stage of Marxist s nationality theory.

This paper first disucsses the translation of " nationality" and "ethnic group"and makes a summary of the discussion of ethnic group, presents the current situation of ethnic group theory and analyzes the research of substantial evidence in practical application of ethnic group theory.

The introduction into the analysis of Yunnan social groups through the ethnic group theory is of great importance to the interaction between the ethnic group theory and practice of ethnic groups in our country.