Local government officials hold a press conference on the riot that killed 156 people and injured more than 1,000 Sunday in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on July 7, 2009. Reporters from foreign news services and domestic ones attended the press conference on Tuesday. [Xinhua]

Li Zhi, secretary of the Urumqi City Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), speaks during a government press conference on the riot that killed 156 people and injured more than 1,000 Sunday in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on July 7, 2009. [Xinhua]