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“The influx of Chinese settlers in Tibet is a serious threat and is making the Tibetans a minority in their own land. When we were in Lhasa (capital of Tibet) we saw Chinese everywhere and more were due to arrive and many will have come now because of the introduction of the railway line from China to Tibet,” said Mr. Hamilton, who was one of the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons that visited Tibet in 2006 and reported their findings in a report.

 

Beijing has launched a "great western development program" to reduce ethic conflict in its underdeveloped western provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang, and to close the economic gaps between China's prosperous eastern coastal area and its poor western inland regions.

Chinese authorities hope to achieve these goals by pouring money into these two regions for local development and encouraging Han Chinese, the country's dominant ethnic group, to settle there. Like ethnic Tibetans who constitute the majority of the population in Tibet, Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking ethnic group, outnumber other ethnic groups in Xinjiang.