当前,随着经济社会快速发展、思想观念深刻变化、利益关系纵横交织,如何做好民族地区群众工作、提高群众工作能力是我们面临的一项重大政治任务和研究课题。一、宁夏在新形势下加强群众工作的实践与探索宁夏654万人口,回族人口占35.6%(80%以上分布在吴忠市和固原市),占全区总人口的35.5%,占全国回族人口的1/5。作为全国唯一的省级回族自治区,22个县(市、区)中仅国家级贫困县就有9个,贫困人口 At present, with the rapid economic and social development, profound changes in ideological concepts and crisscross relations of interests, how to do a good job of mass work in the minority areas and improve the working ability of the masses is a major political task and a research topic that we are facing. I. Practice and Exploration of Ningxia on Strengthening Mass Work under the New Situation Ningxia 654 million population, 35.6% of the Hui population (over 80% are located in Wuzhong City and Guyuan City), accounting for 35.5% of the total population in the region, accounting for the entire Hui nationality population 1/5. As the only provincial-level Hui autonomous region in the country, there are only 9 state-level poverty-stricken counties in 22 counties (cities and districts), and the poor