jointly held a symposium in Kunming on the treatment of ethnic subjects in the media. The sjrmposium explored ways to enrich such themes in cinema and television while avoiding stereotypes, caricatures and exotic images. A.rtie.le 5 51. China has adopted and put into practice a number of new measures - legislative, judicial and administrative - to protect minority rights. 52. The second session of the Seventh National People's Congress adopted a new Law on Administrative Proceedings. Article 8 of this Law stipulates that: "Any citizen of any nationality has the right to use his or her own language and writing in administrative proceedings. "In minorities areas or areas of multi-nationalities, a people's court shall use the common local language and writing in its proceedings and proclamations. "A people's court shall provide translators for participants in proceedings who do not understand the common local language ot writing." 53. Article 49 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Industrial Enterprises under the Ownership of the Whole People adopted on 13 April 1988 stipulates that: "Employees have the right to participate in the democratic management of an enterprise; the right to make suggestions on the production and the rtinning of that enterprise; the right legally to enjoy work protection, work insurance, free time and vacation; the right to report on the actual conditions of that enterprise to a State agency and to make criticism and bring charges against the management of that enterprise." 54. Article 51 of the Law on Industrial Enterprises stipulates that: "The basic form of democratic management in an enterprise is the assembly of the representatives of employees, by which mechanism employees exercise their right of democratic management." 5 5. The State Council published the Regulations on the Registration of Social Groups in October 1989, which made specific provisions for the democratic 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the protection of minority rights in China, specifically in the areas of language, administration, and employment. It highlights laws and regulations that ensure the rights of minority citizens, such as the right to use their own language and participate in democratic management of enterprises. The text does not mention economic development, natural resources, or industry, but rather focuses on social and human rights issues.

**Category**
Culture, Humanitarian aid and relief