The Regulation of the Popularization of Social Sciences of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the first regional regulation in the field of social sciences of the autonomous region, was passed by voting at the 3^rd Plenary Session of the 21^st Conference of the 13^th Standing Committee of the CPC Committee of Inner Mongolia in the afternoon of July 23, 2020 and will come into effect on September 1. Prof. Zhang Zhizhong from IMU participated in the drafting of the Regulation.

During the 4^th Session of the 12^th People’s Congress of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region between January 23 and 29 in 2016, The Proposal on Drafting Regulation of the Popularization of Social Sciences of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (No. 4) submitted by 13 delegates headed by Prof. Zhang Zhizhong as a member of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of the autonomous region and a representative of personages without party affiliation of IMU at the time was reviewed by the Proposal Reviewing Board of the Session and passed by voting by all the delegates at the 3^rd Session of the Presidium.

In March 2018, drafting of The Regulation of the Popularization of Social Sciences of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was incorporated into the 5-year Legislative Plan of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Inner Mongolia by the 13^th Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of the autonomous region. The full play of the People’s Congress of the autonomous region and its Standing Committee in the process of legislation prompted the popularization of social sciences and its legislative practice of the autonomous region into the track of standardization and marked a significant progress in this respect.

Soon afterwards, the Social Sciences Federation of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the designated drafter of the regulation, entrusted Prof. Zhang Zhizhong in the form of major project entrusting, to be in charge of the organization of surveys and the drafting and revision of the text. To revise and perfect the text, the Internal Affairs Justice Working Committee and the Working Committee of Education, Science, Culture and Health of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of the autonomous region, the Social Sciences Federation of the autonomous region and the project team conducted surveys in five provinces/autonomous regions, referred to and studied the texts of regulations already promulgated in some provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, and organized numerous seminars and demonstration meetings. The relatively mature draft of the regulation was submitted by the Law Working Committee and the Working Committee of Education, Science, Culture and Health of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress for review at the 19^th Session of the 13^th Standing Committee of the People’s Congress in March 2020 and was eventually passed by voting at the 3^rd Plenary Session of the 21^st Meeting of the 13^th Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of the autonomous region.

The Regulation is the first regional regulation in the field of social sciences of the autonomous region. The Regulation consists of 30 articles which prescribe the connotation and extension, the subjects and objects, the responsibilities of the government and relevant organs, the guarantee measures, the contents and forms, the social liabilities and legal liabilities etc related to the popularization of social sciences in the logical order of “why popularize, who popularizes, what to popularize, how to popularize and responsibilities of popularization”.

The issuance of the Regulation marks a new stage in the legalized development of the popularization of social sciences of the autonomous region and is of great realistic significance and profound historic significance in further defining the responsibilities and obligations of the government and all social circles in the popularization of social sciences, standardizing the responsibilities and behavior of all the behavioral agents in the popularization of social sciences, organizing and coordinating all kinds of social resources, tackling the bottlenecks restraining the popularization of social sciences, and will surely provide a firm institutional support and legal guarantee for further prospering and developing the undertaking of philosophical and social sciences of the autonomous region.