Chinese senior official Luo Gan
on Thursday evening joined local officials and people here in
attending a soiree to mark the 50th founding anniversary of
northwest China's Xinjiang
Uygur Autonomous Region.
The performance, including vivid songs and dance items with
special local flavors and ethnic characteristics, showed the unity
of people of all ethnicities in Xinjiang and the great achievements
scored by the region under the leadership of the central
government.
Luo, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of
the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, conversed
with some retired officials who had worked in the region before the
soiree began.
(Xinhua News Agency September 16, 2005)