Xi Jinping makes a rare visit to Tibet to mark its 60th year as a Chinese autonomous region:: August 21, 2025:: Human rights groups and Tibetan exiles describe China's rule over the decades as 'oppressive':: China says the lives of ordinary people in Tibet have dramatically improvedA huge delegation from Beijing that included senior leaders from the party and government watched as participants held aloft red placards reminding all of what Tibet needed to accomplish under the guidance of Xi in the parade broadcast on China's national television.

China marked 60 years of Communist Party rule in Tibet on Thursday with speeches and a parade in front of the 17th-century Potala Palace, the home of the Dalai Lama until he fled to India in 1959.