文章以黨的十九大確立的習近平新時代中國特色社會主義思想為主題,圍繞黨的十九大報告有關"民族宗教工作創新發展"這一判斷,結合2014年中央民族工作會議習近平重要講話精神,從民族工作涉及方方面面的廣義民族工作視角,論述和舉證了習近平對新時代民族工作創新發展的思想內容;根據新時代我國社會主要矛盾的判斷,以扶貧攻堅為例,論述了西部地區、邊疆民族地區發展"不平衡不充分"的突出矛盾;著重就黨對民族工作的領導、中華文化與文化自信進行了分析,并對民族工作面向歷史交匯期的著力點、"兩個階段"的愿景提出一些思考。

This article focuses on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era established by the 19 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Centering on the judgment of "innovative development of ethnic and religious work" according to the report of the Party’s 19 th National Congress,combining through the essence of Xi Jinping ’s important talk in the Central Working Conference about Nationality Affairs in 2014, and viewing from the broad perspectives of ethnic work regarding various related aspects, this article discusses and testifies Xi Jinping’s thought content regarding the innovative development of ethnic work in the new era. According to the judgment of China’s principal contradiction facing Chinese society in the new era, this article studies the cases of poverty relief and discusses the contradiction of "unbalanced and inadequate" developments in the western region and ethnic areas in the borderlands. This article analyzes the Party ’s leadership of ethnic work, Chinese cultures and cultural confidence. Additionally, this study also provides some thoughts on ethnic work toward the acting point of the historical convergence period and the vision of "two-stage development plan.