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 ¡¡¡¡Jia Qingling, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of 
the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, visited army, armed police 
judicial police officers in Lhasa on August 30. 
 ¡¡¡¡Jia, who heads a central delegation to celebrate the 40th founding 
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versary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, brought to the Chinese People's 
Liberation Army (PLA) Tibet Command Area and the Chinese People's Armed Police 
(PAP) division in Tibet a banner inscribed by Chinese President Hu Jintao, who 
is concurrently CPC general secretary and chairman of the Central Military 
Commission. 
¡¡¡¡Hu writes, "Let's join up to work hard to achieve common prosperity and 
development." 
 ¡¡¡¡In his speech, Jia said Tibet is an inseparable part of "our great 
motherland". He spoke highly of the enormous contributions made by servicemen 
and police officers in Tibet since 1950, the year Tibet was liberated in a 
peaceful way. 
 ¡¡¡¡He urged the Army and Armed Police to bear the historical duty of 
protecting and stabilizing Tibet. 
 ¡¡¡¡Jia and the central delegation watched an art performance designed for 
celebrating the 40th founding anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region. 
 ¡¡¡¡Local artists of different ethnic groups performed dances and songs to show 
enormous changes and development in Tibet since this autonomous region was 
established in 1965. 
 ¡¡¡¡Source: Xinhua 
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