中文摘要：

当前，民族工作面临着民族地区要全面建设成小康社会，构建各民族间平等团结互助和谐的社会，建设中华各民族大团结的共有精神家园，维护民族平等和民族区域自治的统一国家，同时做好新形势下的城市民族工作等一系列根本性的任务，其中，最根本任务是维护国家统一和民族团结。

英文摘要：

The contemporary ethnic work faces a series of fundamental tasks, which are shown as follows： fully building a moderately prosperous society, building a harmonious society with equality, unity and mutual assistance among nationalities, building a common spiritual home with united Chinese nationalities, maintai- ning a unified nation with nationality equality and ethnic regional autonomy, perfecting the urban ethnic work under the new situation, etc. , among which, the most fundamental task to safeguard national unification and ethnic unity.