President Xi Jinping has stressed developing more local specialty industries and achieving better development through innovation. He made the remarks on Monday when visiting a company producing Tibetan carpets during an inspection tour of northwest China's Qinghai Province.

Tibetan carpet is a traditional handicraft with a history of more than 2,000 years. In 2006, Jiaya Tibetan carpet weaving skills were inscribed in China's first group of national intangible cultural heritage items.

The company uses traditional craftsmanship to make the carpets and new machine weaving techniques to create fine patterns at a reasonable price.

The company has managed to combine traditional and modern craftsmanship, resulting in the unique features of Tibetan carpets. Some products are even embedded with LED filaments.

The company offers virtual reality customer service, through which people can find out if the carpets they like fit their rooms before purchase. Personalized service helps the firm meet more diversified market needs, like making a carpet based on a customer's picture.

The efforts have paid off as the company's sales have doubled in six years. More people across the province have come to work here and learn, most from rural areas. Many later returned home and started their own businesses with the techniques they learned here. President Xi has pointed out that this helps people get out of poverty, boost rural vitalization and promote ethnic unity.

President Xi also visited a local residential community and learned about its efforts to strengthen Party building, public services, ethnic unity and progress.

Sixteen community workers are serving residential compounds with more than 22,000 residents of all ages and ethnic groups. It is one of 176 communities of Xining City, which are working on improving their community services, including community-based care for teenagers, and home-based care for the aged.

Qinghai Province has long been a melting pot for a number of minority ethnic groups, including Tibetans, Tu, Salar, and Mongols. They make up over 45 percent of the province's population of 5.9 million, and a quarter of Xining City's population. President Xi stressed the importance of improving ethnic unity, saying the key to good community governance lies in grassroots-level Party organizations that serve people, especially with their daily matters.

"We are a family, and we are all brothers and sisters," President Xi told the local villagers while visiting a village in Shaliuhe Township in Gangcha County, Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, on Tuesday. Indeed, not a single ethnic group should be left behind in the country's efforts to build a modern country. Innovation brings development, including industrial growth and social governance. And that paves the way for advancing public services, social progress and ethnic unity.