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China’s newly enacted Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress provides a legal basis for policies that place Mandarin-language education and a state-defined Chinese national identity at the centre of schooling, raising renewed concerns over the future of Tibetan-language and cultural education.
The law, adopted by China’s National People’s Congress on 12 March and effective from 1 July 2026, requires schools and other educational institutions to use the national common language and script as the basic language of education and teaching. It also requires schools to incorporate the cultivation of a “sense of community of the Chinese nation” throughout the educational process and...
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