Professor He Ming at YNU’s School of Ethnology and Social Sciences delivers a speech briefing the attendees on the history and development of ethnology at the university. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

Yunnan University (YNU) held a seminar on the study of the Tibetan ethnic minority, as well as other minorities from surrounding areas, on April 15.

More than 60 domestic and foreign professors specializing in ethnology attended the seminar.

At the opening ceremony presided over by Professor Zhao Chunsheng, Party secretary at the School of Ethnology and Social Sciences of YNU, the school’s Professor He Ming delivered a speech briefing the attendees on the history and development of YNU’s discipline of ethnology, which is now ranked in the list of the Double First-rate Program, initiated by the national education authority to build first-rate disciplines and universities that are competitive at the international level. 

He also said that studies on Tibetan ethnicity and its surrounding ethnic minorities have long been a focus of YNU’s ethnological and anthropological studies.

Keynote speeches were made following the opening ceremony, with several representatives sharing their views on the subject.

During the last part of the seminar, attendees held discussions on social structure and religion among Tibetans and ethnic minority communities surrounding Tibet. The importance of preserving ethnic culture was also discussed.

Attendees at the seminar pose for a photograph. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]