The Guangxi Institute for Nationalities in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south China, has trained more than 50,000 professionals, 75 percent of whom are ethnic students, since it was founded in 1952.

The graduates are playing important roles in governmental departments and circles of medicine, culture, education, media and finance throughout the region.

The institute, one of the 13 colleges for members of ethnic groups, has now a student population of 9,750, with 33 majors ranging from the arts and economics to science and engineering. It has become one of the country's research centers on nationalities, especially the ethnic groups in the autonomous region and southeast Asia.

Long-term cooperation relationships have also been formed between the institute and local enterprises to transfer its latest research results and high-tech developments into industrialization.

China's 13 institutes for nationalities enroll about 30,000 ethnic students.