China's Xi visits Tibet for first time as president
Chinese President Xi Jinping
China'sPresidentXiJinping visited theTibetAutonomous Region on July 21-22, according to the officialXinhua news agency, in hisfirstrecorded visit as leader of the nation.
Xiflew into the city of Nyingchi on Wednesday and took a train toTibetan capital Lhasa the following day along a section of the high-elevation railway being built to link the mountainous border region with Sichuan province.
In Lhasa,Xivisited a monastery and the Potala Palace Square, and "inspected ethnic religion" andTibetan cultural heritage protection, according toXinhua. The palace is the traditional home ofTibetan Buddhism's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who is in exile and has been branded a dangerous separatist by Beijing.
In Nyingchi, he also inspected rural rejuvenation and environmental protection.
Tibet, onChina'sborder with India, is seen as having critical strategic importance to Beijing. Last year China and India saw the most serious clash in decades on their disputed border in the Himalayas, with deaths on both sides.
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Photos released byXinhua showXiwas accompanied by Zhang Youxia, a vice chairman ofChina'sCentral Military Commission and a senior general in the People's Liberation Army.
Xiwas last inTibetin 2011, when he was vicepresident.
Beijing sent troops intoTibetin 1950 in what it officially terms a peaceful liberation and maintains a heavy security presence in the region, which has been prone to unrest.