摘要
<正>When Mark Feng Teng and Gabriel Fan Fang approached me to write a commentary for this special issue, it took me some time to grasp the complexities and subtleties involved in an unprecedented project on the language education conditions and learning needs of China’s ethnic populations. A refocus on the vast number of domestic learners from diverse ethnic groups, socioeconomic settings and geographic locations is a daunting task by any measure,