A Japanese entrepreneur who once taught in a school in China's Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region has spent the past two decades helping local people tackle the problem of desertification through regreening projects, aiming to give something back to a place he considers his "second home."
Pan’s election to the Central Committee suggests that the Xi administration’s hard turn toward assimilationism will likely continue and perhaps intensify. Pan is the second Han official in a row to head the Ethnic Affairs Commission, which for nearly 70 years had been led by a Party member from a non-Han nationality. Since the beginning of Xi’s second term in 2017, measures