National and ethnic unity vital for region, Xi says

President Xi Jinping has underlined national and ethnic unity as key for Tibet, vowing to focus on long-term, comprehensive stability and an "unswerving" anti-separatism battle.

"Key efforts in the work for Tibet should be spent on ensuring national unity and consolidating ethnic unity, realizing long-term and comprehensive social stability as an obligatory task," Xi said.

The president was speaking in Beijing at a two-day meeting related to the Tibet autonomous region that ended on Tuesday.