中央民族干部学院是党和国家专门为培养少数民族干部、民族地区干部、民族工作战线干部而建立的一所具有鲜明特色的干部学院。中国共产党很早就认识到培养少数民族干部的重要性。早在1935年,延安时期的中央党校就设有民族班;1937年创办的干部学校陕北公学设有民族部。1941年,我党建立了第一所专门培养少数民族干部的学校——延安民族学院。新中国成立后,民族工作的重要性更加凸显,党和国家陆续建立中央民族学院等民族学院,最初其主要任 The Central Institute for Nationalities and Cadres is a cadre college with distinctive characteristics set up by the party and the state to train cadres of ethnic minorities, cadres of ethnic minorities and nationalities. The Chinese Communist Party has long recognized the importance of training cadres of ethnic minorities. As early as 1935, the Central Party School in Yan’an had a nationality class; the cadre school founded in 1937 had a national department in Northern Shaanxi University. In 1941, our party established the first school dedicated to cultivating ethnic minority cadres - Yan’an Nationalities College. After the founding of New China, the importance of ethnic work even more prominent, the Party and the state have set up the Central Institute for Nationalities and other ethnic institutes, initially its main