Chinese leaders join lawmakers in panel discussions (4/5)

Liu Yunshan (C), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, joins a panel discussion of deputies to the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) from north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2014. (Xinhua/Liu Jiansheng)

Liu Yunshan, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, attended the panel discussion with lawmakers from north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

He stressed social stability and ethnic unity in the discussion.

"We should promote the tradition of all ethnic groups 'breathing the same air and sharing the same fate,'" he said. "We should cherish ethnic unity in the way we cherish our own eyes."