The National Research Center at Yunnan University for Studies of Borderland Ethnic Minorities in Southwest China was established in 2001. This Center at Yunnan University is one of 100 national humanities and social science establishments set up by the Chinese Education Ministry. Besides the Resource Room, it includes the following five institutions: the Kuige (Fieldwork and Social Culture) Research Unit, the Ethnic Relations and Nationalities Issues Research Unit, the Cross-Border Ethnic and Border Issues Research Unit, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Unit and the Visual Anthropological Laboratory. There are nineteen persons in the Center, including researchers, administrative staff and assistants. Their main academic research fields are: ethnic minorities in southwest China (including the Dai, Hani, Naxi, Zhuang and others which have not yet been classified), ethnic relations in southwest China, economic anthropology and ethnic minority economic issues, development anthropology and cultural industry in ethnic minority areas, border studies, national politics,China and Southeast Asia transnational ethnic minorities, traditional knowledge of ethnic minorities and their intangible cultural heritage, visual anthropology, etc.