In China, #law# serves not only to protect social relations and maintain social order but also to guide and promote economic and social development and advance #Chinese# modernization. Promotional laws formulated to encourage, advance, and coordinate reform, innovation, and high-quality development in specific fields are a vivid expression of good law and good governance in contemporary China. #DeepChina# The Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law is a promotional law aimed at fostering ethnic unity and progress and promoting the common development and prosperity of all #ethnic# groups. The principal matters it promotes include: consolidating the sense of community of the Chinese nation; building a shared spiritual homeland; promoting exchange, communication, and integration among all ethnic groups; advancing common prosperity and development through high-quality development; modernizing the system and governance capacity for ethnic affairs; and using legal means to maintain and develop ethnic unity, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of all ethnic groups, preserve stability in ethnic regions, and protect national unity. It is worth noting that, as a promotional law enacted by the NPC, the highest organ of state power in #China#, the Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law differs from many other #promotional# laws, which tend to emphasize encouragement, incentives, services, and guidance. In addition to establishing the guiding ideology and basic principles governing ethnic relations and ethnic affairs, this law uses firm and explicit language to prescribe clear rules for ethnic relations and ethnic work, embodying an organic integration of principles and rules as well as programmatic and normative elements. #ChineseNation#