After General Secretary Hu Jintao inspected the People's Daily one year ago, People's Daily Online followed instructions from central leaders to introduce four ethnic minority languages—Uighur, Kazakh, Yi and Zhuang to its website, as well as two mobile e-papers in Tibetan and Uyghur, on June 20.

People's Daily Online has now introduced languages of seven ethnic minorities—Mongolian, Tibetan, Uighur, Kazakh, Korean, Yi and Zhuang languages—becoming China's first website to adopt the languages of seven ethnic minorities used by the National Congress of the CPC and the National People's Congress.

In the next stage, People's Daily Online will further develop its website and mobile e-papers using ethnic minority languages. Presented in richer formats and content, it will promptly convey the Party's theories, guidelines and policies, disseminate the Party's regional autonomous systems designed for ethnic minorities, and fully report economic and social development achievements in ethnic minority regions.

It will also fully cover new changes to the lives of ethnic minorities, actively participate in online public opinion arguments about Tibet and Xinjiang issues, consolidate the thoughts and sentiments of Chinese people home and abroad, and make positive contributions to promoting economic development and social stability in ethnic minority regions.

By People's Daily Online

http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2009-06/23/content_280530.htm