The Chinese people belonged to the _____ race.
The Mongols are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. They also live as minorities in other regions of China. Mongolian is the official national language of Mongolia, where it is spoken by nearly 2.8 million people and the official provincial language of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where there are at least 4.1 million ethnic Mongols.