Speech in Urumqi comes at the end of the first trip by a Chinese president to the autonomous region for its anniversary.<\/b>
\nChina\u2019s top official overseeing ethnic and religious affairs has saluted Beijing\u2019s approach to Xinjiang over the past decade, bookending a landmark trip by President Xi Jinping to the region to mark its founding.
Addressing a major event in Urumqi on Thursday for the 70th anniversary of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Wang Huning said that over the decades, especially since \u201cthe new era\u201d \u2013 the period after Xi took power in 2012 \u2013 people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang had \u201ccontinuously won great victories\u201d in socialist revolution, construction, reform and opening up.
He said the course taken had been \u201ccompletely correct\u201d and Xinjiang\u2019s \u201cbrilliant achievements\u201d over the past seven decades fully demonstrated the \u201cremarkable advantages\u201d of the Communist Party\u2019s leadership and China\u2019s socialist system.
\u201c[It also] fully demonstrated the great robustness of the correct path of solving ethnic issues with Chinese characteristics, and fully proved that the party\u2019s Xinjiang governance strategy in the new era is completely correct,\u201d state news agency Xinhua quoted Wang as saying.
Wang is the country\u2019s fourth-ranking official and chairman of the Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference, which oversees ethnic and religious affairs as well as united front work.
Xi also attended the event as part of a trip in which he became the first president to visit the region for its anniversary \u2013 signalling the importance Beijing attaches to Xinjiang.<\/p>\n