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In the 1950s, the Communist regime's "Regional National Autonomy" policy replaced the earlier "centralization" policies of the Qing and the Republic of China in regard to frontier minority areas. In a fashion similar to the Soviet Union's titular nations, a number of areas associated with one or more ethnic minorities were designated as autonomous within the People's Republic of China. These areas were recognized in the PRC's constitution and nominally given a number of rights not accorded to other administrative divisions. However, this act did not mean that the Beijing government in fact changed earlier national goal of integration; on the contrary, the PRC inherited the experiences of centralization and anti-separatism from previous Chinese regimes as well as the Soviet Union and through administrative techniques was able to keep latent separatism under control. In Xinjiang, the PRC operated a policy of "from the bottom up and reestablishing feudal lords to lessen their (individual) strengths." Beijing, established numerous non-Uyghur autonomous regions, from ethnic townships and autonomous counties to autonomous prefectures, which diluted and diverted the Uyghurs' political resources. In the four other provincial-level autonomous regions--Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Ningxia and Tibet--autonomous ethnic groups either became minorities in their own Autonomous Regions, or else found their geographical space diminished. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]