The contents stipulated in Article 1 14 of the Constitution.

Article 114th of the Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that the chairman of an autonomous region, the governor of an autonomous prefecture and the county head of an autonomous county shall be a citizen of the ethnic group exercising regional autonomy.

Autonomous region is one of the types of administrative divisions, which refers to administrative regions with autonomy. It is often located in the main residence and traditional areas of ethnic minorities in China, or in places separated from the local land belt such as outlying islands and frontiers, and often exists as a first-class administrative region.

Its local government has higher autonomy in internal affairs than other provincial administrative regions.

China has five autonomous regions: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Xizang Autonomous Region, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Autonomy means that under the unified leadership of the state, based on the places where ethnic minorities live in concentrated communities, corresponding organs of self-government are established to exercise autonomy, and ethnic minorities are masters of their own affairs and manage local affairs within their own ethnic groups.

National autonomous areas enjoy the right of national autonomy as stipulated in the Constitution, the Law on Regional National Autonomy and other laws. This system is called "the system of regional ethnic autonomy" and is a basic political system in China.

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Constitution of the people's Republic of China

Article 114 The chairman of an autonomous region, the governor of an autonomous prefecture and the county head of an autonomous county shall be a citizen of the ethnic group exercising regional autonomy. Article 115 The organs of self-government of autonomous regions, autonomous prefectures and autonomous counties exercise the functions and powers of local state organs as stipulated in Section 5 of Chapter III of the Constitution, exercise the right of self-government in accordance with the limits of authority prescribed by the Constitution, the Law on Regional National Autonomy and other laws, and implement the laws and policies of the state according to local actual conditions. Article 116 The people's congresses of ethnic autonomous areas have the right to formulate autonomous regulations and separate regulations in accordance with the political, economic and cultural characteristics of the local ethnic groups. The autonomous regulations and separate regulations of the autonomous region shall take effect after being approved by the NPC Standing Committee. Autonomous regulations and separate regulations of autonomous prefectures and autonomous counties shall come into effect after being approved by the standing Committee of the people's congress of a province or autonomous region and reported to the NPC Standing Committee for the record.