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The Institute of Unearthed Documents and Traditional Economy of Wuhan University took the lead in organizing well-known experts and scholars in the study of contracts of various ethnic groups in China. In 2014, it applied for and undertook the major project of the National Social Science Fund "Compilation of Contract Documents of Various Ethnic Groups Unearthed on the Silk Road and Its Relationship with Chinese Contracts" "Comparative Research" (14ZDB030), cooperated to systematically sort out contracts in some ethnic languages, and also carried out multi-faceted research on the contract documents of various ethnic groups. In October 2015, the "Research on Ethnic Contracts Unearthed from the Silk Road" was held in Turpan City "International Academic Forum", more than 40 experts and scholars from home and abroad participated in the meeting. They conducted multi-faceted discussions on the Qilin, Tubo, Uighur, Xixia, Chagatai and Chinese contract documents unearthed along the ancient Silk Road. They also discussed the prosperity of contracts along the Silk Road. Many insights were put forward in terms of the role of the contract in various ethnic languages, the similarities and differences between contracts in various ethnic languages and those in Chinese, as well as the evolution of differences and convergence, the adjustment of the Silk Road route and its economic activities in different periods, and the understanding of the characteristics and regularity of the development of the contract itself. These academic results are now compiled into the "Collection of Research on Contract Documents of Various Ethnic Groups on the Silk Road" for the purpose of wider exchange.