BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- A white paper issued by China's State Council Information Office Friday reiterated that Tibet has been an integral part of China since ancient times.
China is a unified multiethnic country with a long history. The Chinese nation is a community of shared future. Tibet has developed through the combined efforts of all the ethnic groups in China, said the white paper titled "Tibet Since 1951: Liberation, Development and Prosperity."
The political, economic and cultural exchanges between Tibetans and other ethnic groups throughout history have an important bearing on the development of the Tibetan people as an ethnic group, it added. Enditem
