Chinese writer and politician of Yi ethnicity (born 1961)
Jidi Majia (simplified Chinese: 吉狄马加; traditional Chinese: 吉狄馬加; pinyin: Jídí mǎjiā) is a Chinese poet and a lieutenant governor of Qinghai from 2006 to 2010. He was born in 1961 and belongs to an ethnic minority of China, the Yi. He has published numerous poetic anthologies since the 1980s and has won national literature awards, is also considered one of the greatest poets of minorities in China. He is the President of the China Minority Literary Association and Permanent Vice-President of the China Poets' Association.
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