Chinese leader’s remarks promoting cultural integration come as autonomous region marks 70th anniversary and amid Beijing’s push for unity.

Chinese leader’s remarks promoting cultural integration come as autonomous region marks 70th anniversary and amid Beijing’s push for unity.

Speech in Urumqi comes at the end of the first trip by a Chinese president to the autonomous region for its anniversary.

Round of tours, which included drive to promote sense of national unity, continued after President Xi Jinping’s visit to the region this week.