Minority backbone plan refers to the talent training plan implemented by the state for minority areas. The plan for high-level talents of ethnic minorities, referred to as the plan for ethnic minorities, is an important measure taken by five ministries and commissions to implement the Party's ethnic policy and promote the strategy of developing the western region through science and education.

Graduate students applying for this program must return to their original provinces for a certain number of years after graduation. Graduate students who have been employed before applying for the project must, in principle, return to their original units to continue their work after graduation; Graduate students who are fresh graduates before the exam will return to the original province after graduation (only in fixed areas, uncertain industries, uncertain units and uncertain jobs, and training institutions will issue employment recommendation forms in a unified way, enjoying the same treatment as graduate students recruited in the original area).

The qualification of candidates for the backbone plan of ethnic minorities must meet one of the following conditions:

Fresh undergraduate graduates with nationally recognized academic qualifications;

Persons with nationally recognized bachelor's degrees;

After two years or more (September of the year from the graduation of higher vocational colleges to the admission of master students 1, the same below), people who have reached the same educational level as undergraduate graduates and meet the specific business requirements put forward by the admissions unit according to the training objectives of the unit;

Undergraduate graduates with nationally recognized academic qualifications and recent graduates of adult colleges and universities shall apply for the examination according to the equivalent academic qualifications of undergraduate graduates;