Students perform during an event to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at Tibet University in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Sept. 12, 2019. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)

President Xi Jinping has encouraged medical students of Tibet University to build strong ability and serve the people at the primary level ahead of the Tibetan New Year.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks Friday when answering a letter from the students who are interning at Peking University Shougang Hospital in Beijing.