Written from the definition and change of the identity concept, this paper introduces western researchers?studies on the development of ethnic identity, ethnic identity and mental health, ethnic identity and acculturation, and ethnic identity and personality development, etc, and summarizes some study strategies of ethnic identity.

After a survey in 2116 adolescents in Southern Xinjiang,the paper reveals that the adolescents in Southern Xinjiang are more positive in national identity than in ethnic identity,the ratio in national identity and ethnic identity changes as the cognitive structure of adolescents develops,not following a straight line.

Cultural identity is the basic premise of national identity and ethnic identity,national and ethnic identity is maintained and the basis for the realization of national reunification,and ultimately,national cultural identity has become an important foundation for the peaceful reunification.

On the Opening-up and Reform and the national identity of China

Promoting harmonious development between ethnic groups and the country hence become the issue of solving the problem between ethnic recognition and national recognition.

In the long developmental history,each ethnic group developed their ethnic recognition but compared with the ethnic inner recognition,the national recognition of China by each ethnic group is not that smooth.

Ethnic recognition is an inevitable outcome of history.

The era of globalization is a time when nationalism is upsurging,communication of different cultures results in interactions of national identification,culture identification and state identification.

Based on an investigation of a "she" minority village, this article points out that, under our national policy and special conditions, a certain human group can construct a new national identification but include different minorities without even national identity or tradition but the benefits of instrumentalism.

Its behaving forms involve ultra nationalism,terrorism and national splittism,they are catabolized national identifications and make against to the state identification and state security for the nations in the national country.

Relatively, the nation identity anxiety of the Chinese intellectuals and strong illusion upon modernization of the mass have brought about the flooding of globalization narrative discourses in the development of the contemporary literature and formed a kind of discourse hegemony gradually with great impact on the China s civilizing and the aesthetic nature of Chinese literature, w.