[citation needed] As of July 2023[update], official publications have avoided references to Mongolians in China and instead used the term "northern frontier culture" (bei jiang wenhua).

Other official ethnic groups in China which speak Mongolic languages include: Mongols living in China face a multitude of Anti-Mongolian discriminations by the current Chinese government on the goal of assimilating the Mongolian population into the Han population.

"[18] Most recently on May 3, 2023, the Chinese government arrested Mr. Lhamjab Borjigin, a Mongolian writer, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

[16] This isn't the first time China has made these kinds of arrests on foreign soil against Mongols either, as this is the fifth occurrence.

[15] Under the "ecological migration" policy, the Chinese government has moved thousands of Mongolians into city/urban areas away from their home grasslands on the basis that the Mongolian nomadic lifestyle is destroying the grasslands and causing climate change symptoms like desertification and sandstorms.