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Guarantee ethnic minority rights in political and legislative affairs

Photo shows deputies of the Peoples Congress of Shufu County, Kashi Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region study documents. As the only autonomous region in China with three-level autonomy (autonomous region, autonomous prefecture and autonomous county), Xinjiang has five autonomous prefectures and six autonomous counties. The Peoples Congress and the peoples government at all levels in the autonomous region exercise their power to manage the affairs of their own localities.