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The state-run news agency Xinhua said Friday a high-level meeting in Beijing on Tibet ended this week with an agreement to "achieve leapfrog development and lasting stability in Tibet."

"More efforts must be made to greatly improve living standards of the people in Tibet, as well as ethnic unity and stability", Chinese President Hu Jintao said.

Hu and other senior leaders reportedly made the commitments while attending the fifth meeting on the work of Tibet Monday-Wednesday.

Xinhua quoted Hu as saying during an address that the Chinese leadership are placing great importance on helping Tibet to build "a well-off society in an all-round way, establishing a national ecological protective screen and realizing sustainable development."

Hu reportedly said the goal for Tibet, which was rocked by riots in 2008 that Beijing blamed on separatists, was to raise the per-capita net income of farmers and herdsmen to close to the national level by 2020. He said more support for agriculture, animal husbandry, tourism, handicraft industry and resource development would be allocated.

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