In the past three decades the region has exercised its autonomous rights in drafting local laws, and other region-specific policies.

To date, Inner Mongolia has established a number of autonomous entities for its many ethnic groups including the Daur, Ewenki and Oroqen groups - ensuring social cohesion.

Some 30 percent of the region's cadres are of an ethnic background, ensuring the voices of minorities are heard.

In Erdos, the city government specially recruited 30 university graduates this year who had mastered both Chinese and Mongolian, a new move to further maintain Mongolian culture.

Hao Weimin, a renowned Mongolian professor in modern history with the Inner Mongolia University, called the autonomy system "a great success" for ethnic groups. "Thanks to the preferential policies, the education level of minority groups in the 36 higher-learning institutions and 1,477 middle schools is now actually higher than the regional average for all groups of people," Hao said.