North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region is making renewed efforts to improve its ethnic unity.

Regulations of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress officially took effect on May 1.

The measures were reviewed at the fourth session of the 13th People's Congress of Inner Mongolia autonomous region and passed on Jan 30.

They are divided into eight chapters, totaling 70 articles: General Provisions, Promoting Chinese Cultural Identity and Cultural Inheritance, Promoting the Common Prosperity and Development of All Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Unity and Progress, Strengthening Social Coordination, Guarantees and Supervision, Legal Responsibility and Supplementary Provisions. 

The initiative represents the first comprehensive local law in Inner Mongolia that promotes ethnic unity and progress. It reportedly responds to the call to cherish and uphold Inner Mongolia's fine tradition of ethnic unity and cement the sense of community for the Chinese nation.

It sets out to comprehensively and systematically implement the Party's ethnic work innovation theoretical requirements, extensively promote democracy, adhere to the leadership of the Party, with the people being the master of the country and the rule of law. 

It reportedly embodies the common will and fundamental interests of people from all ethnic groups in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

It is regarded as being of great import in order to promote ethnic unity and progress -- as well as to consolidate and develop the socialist ethnic relations of equality, unity, mutual assistance and harmony and the sense of community of the Chinese nation.