BEIJING (Reuters) -Tibet marked its 60th year as a Chinese autonomous region on Thursday with songs, dances and a parade in its capital Lhasa with thousands cheering, holding little red flags, amid placards telling all to heed the Communist Party's leadership.

With leader Xi Jinping looking on, 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.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping took a jab at the Dalai Lama while in Tibet, alluding to a need for greater control over "religious affairs."

China’s top political adviser has stressed the Communist Party’s “strong leadership” in a speech reviewing decades of achievements to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet autonomous region.

Both autonomous regions are large, have unique demographics, and harsh terrain and climatic conditions that make the construction of infrastructure projects challenging. Increasing access, however, has been an important Chinese policy goal of late.