🇨🇳Does China have Indigenous and Colonial Memory?

Not observed here

China has no official category of "indigenous peoples"; the institution sits elsewhere. The Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy (passed by the Sixth National People's Congress in 1984, amended in 2001) opens its preamble with the sentence "The People's Republic of China is a unitary multi-ethnic state built jointly by the people of all its ethnic groups", and then makes regional ethnic autonomy "a basic political system of the state": autonomous organs exercising powers of self-government in areas where minority nationalities live in compact communities. What corresponds to a commemorative day is not a date but a system of citations. The State Ethnic Affairs Commission's own explanatory note traces it to the "ethnic unity month" campaigns of the 1950s; the State Council convened the first national conference to honour ethnic unity and progress in 1988, and again in 1994, 1999 and 2005, and State Council Order No. 435 turned "carrying out activities that promote ethnic unity and progress, and honouring the units and individuals that make outstanding contributions" into a legal duty of governments at every level. On Taiwan's indigenous peoples, the Commission's page is explicit: "For the minority nationality of Taiwan, our government uses Gaoshan as the official ethnonym, while the Taiwan authorities call them yuanzhumin." The same population, two official names — and in Taiwan the Council of Indigenous Peoples currently recognises sixteen separate peoples.