This book gathers the outcomes of various, extensive research efforts on building a moderately prosperous society in minority areas, which would allow China’s poor and poverty-stricken areas to comprehensively join the rest of society. Offering an essential reference guide, the book will help readers understand the process, achievements, problems, and future development with regard to building a moderately prosperous society in the new era.

Yanzhong Wang is currently researcher and the director of the institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, CASS. He mainly studies on labor and social security, social and economic development theory and policy, ethnic theory, and development of ethnic areas. His main representative works include China Social Security Development Report, Social Science Academic Press, China Labor Union Security Issues Research, Economic & Management Publishing House, etc.