But critics argue that moving these farmers, who are mainly Han Chinese and members of the minority Hui, Tu and Salar ethnic groups, will further erode the position of the Tibetan inhabitants of Dulan County in Haixi Prefecture, where the farmers are to be resettled and which is a designated Tibetan and Mongolian Autonomous Area. Tibetans are already in a minority there.
1999 May 30, Paul Lewis, “U.S. May Try To Stop Loan Seen as Bad For Tibetans”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on May 27, 2015, World