China’s People’s Congress approved Beijing’s government reform. Under it, the State Council will include 26 ministries and commissions. Xinhua published the names of the 26 „key officials“ on March 12, 2023, including Minister Pan Yue 潘 as the new head of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the country’s 55 National Minorities. Although these represent only 8.9 percent of the predominantly Han Chinese population. But Beijing sees them as a threat to the country’s unity, especially in the troubled regions of the Uyghurs, Tibetans and Mongolians. Ethnic aspirations for more political, linguistic, religious or cultural autonomy are resolutely persecuted.