1981 Inner Mongolia student protest

1981 Inner Mongolia student protest, taken placed in Inner Mongolia from 22 August to 15 November 1981, opposed a package of new policies that would worsen steppe degradation in the Inner Mongolia steppe and worsen the political representation of Chinese Mongols.[1] The new policies included "we shall have 100 million cattle within the next decade", "the influx of rural-to-urban migrants from neighboring provinces shall be settled rather than be blocked" and "placing mongol officials in place in Mongols-majority settlements while Han officials in place in Han-majority settlements".[2] The protest were mostly organized by the students of Inner Mongolia University. The policies were proposed by then Inner Mongolia Chief party secretary Zhou Hui and sanctioned by the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China at its meeting on 16 July 1981, chaired by then top party secretary Hu Yaobang.[2]