BEIJING, July 30 -- Chinese leaders are considering promoting further economic and social development in Tibet Autonomous Region to help the region achieve prolonged stability.

Safeguarding national unity and enhancing ethnic unity should be highlighted in work involving Tibet, said a statement issued on Thursday after a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), presided over by President and General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping.

Efforts should be made to unswervingly carry out the anti-separatism battle, promote the region's economic and social development, safeguard and improve people's welfare, and enhance exchanges and integration of different ethnic groups, the statement said.