1981 Inner Mongolia student protest

Student-led protest against cultural and political policiesThe 1981 Inner Mongolia student protest, was a student-led protest which took place in Inner Mongolia from 22 August to 15 November 1981, opposing a package of new policies that would worsen steppe degradation in the Inner Mongolia steppe and worsen the political representation of Chinese Mongols.Jankowiak William R. 1988 The Last Hurrah? Political Protest in Inner Mongolia https://www.jstor.org/stable/2158548 The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs The University of Chicago Press 19/20 269–288 10.2307/2158548 2158548 156352814 The new policies included "we shall have 100 million cattle within the next decade", "the influx of Rural-to-urban migration in China rural-to-urban migrants zh 盲流 from neighboring provinces shall be settled rather than be blocked" and "placing Mongol officials in place in Mongol-majority settlements and Han officials in place in Han-majority settlements".1981-08-03 中共中央关于转发《中央书记处讨论内蒙古自治区工作纪要》的通知，中发［1981］28号 https://ccradb.appspot.com/post/935 https://web.archive.org/web/20160827070220/https://ccradb.appspot.com/post/935 2016-08-27 The Chinese Cultural Revolution Database 中发［1981］28号 The protest were mostly organized by the students of Inner Mongolia University. The policies were proposed by then Inner Mongolia Chief party secretary Zhou Hui and sanctioned by the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party at its meeting on 16 July 1981, chaired by then top party secretary Hu Yaobang. Hu, known for his restrained approach towards students, ordered Zhou Hui to not arrest any students. As promised, the students were left unscathed, but many bureaucrats, school headmasters and teachers were demoted. See also 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, also handled by Hu Yaobang 2020 Inner Mongolia protests, on bilingual education policy Migration in China Grassland degradation Racism in China References Category:1981 in China Category:History of Hohhot Category:Language policy in Inner Mongolia