The arrival of the Chinese leader in Tibet in Tibet was welcomed with people, who swiveled flower bouquet and dance “to joyful rhythms”.
China’s President Xi Jinping has rarely visited Tibet to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the consolidation of Chinese rule over the long-controversial Himalayan territory, reports State News.
The state -run news agency of Xinhua said that XI arrived in Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa on Wednesday, where it was met by around 20,000 civil servants and locals from “all ethnic groups and all areas of life”.
In Lhasa, XI called for the construction of a “modern socialist” tibet “, which united, wealthy, civilized, harmonious and beautiful,” said Xinhua.
The state broadcaster CCTV said that XI had emphasized the need to “lead the Tibetan Buddhism in adaptation to socialist society”.
China claims that Tibet has been part of his territory for centuries, but many Tibetans say that they were essentially independent under their own Buddhist theocracy.
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The communist armed forces occupied Tibet in 1951, and in 1965 the Chinese leader Mao Zedong’s individual party dictatorship founded the Autonomous Region Tibet.
Political repression followed decades, and in recent years a great migration of majority multiple Chinese has occurred to the high-quality region.
Tibet is largely closed to journalists and foreigners.
China also insists on the right to appoint a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, who recently turned 90 and lived in neighboring India after the escape of Chinese rule in 1959.
Xi’s arrival in Tibet came together with another rare trip this week from China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi to India, where both Beijing and Neu -Delhi were promised to rebuild connections that were damaged by a fatal borderline for 2020 troops from both countries.
Due to its border with India, Tibet is a very strategic region for China, although Beijing’s latest Mega hydropower project on the Tibetan plateau has also unsettled India downstream.
XI has explained that the project must be “energetically” pursued as part of the China’s CO2 reduction goals and at the same time protects the “water tower” of Asia.
