Editing Autonomous regions of China (section)

==History==
Established in 1947, the [[Inner Mongolia|Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region]] became the first autonomous region in the [[Communist-controlled China (1927–1949)|Chinese liberated zone]]. [[Xinjiang]] was made autonomous in 1955 after the PRC's founding, and [[Guangxi]] and [[Ningxia]] were made autonomous in 1958. [[Tibet Autonomous Region|Tibet]] was [[Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China|annexed]] by the People's Republic of China in 1951, and was declared an autonomous region in 1965. The designation of Guangxi and Ningxia as [[Zhuang people|Zhuang]] and [[Hui people|Hui]] autonomous areas, respectively, was protested by the local [[Han Chinese]], who made up two-thirds of the population of each region.{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}} Although [[Mongols in China|Mongols]] made up an even smaller percentage of Inner Mongolia than either of these, the ensuing [[Chinese Civil War]] gave little opportunity for protest.<ref>{{cite book |title = Government Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asia and the Pacific |publisher = MIT Press |editor1-first = Michael Edward |editor1-last = Brown |editor2-first = Šumit |editor2-last = Ganguly |year=1997 |chapter = Assimilation and Accommodation in China |first = June Teufel |last = Dreyer |page = 365}}</ref>