Those cities, which have seen their own mass rallies in recent weeks, are part of the region`s southern Uighur heartland, where recent violence has flared.
At an Urumqi airport later that day, Chen dispatched 1,500 armed police to the "frontlines" in the Xinjiang cities of Hotan, Kashgar and Aksu.
Hundreds have died in Xinjiang in the past few years, mostly in unrest between the Muslim Uighur people, who call the region home, and the ethnic majority Han Chinese.
BEIJING More than 10,000 armed police in China`s western Xinjiang region staged a mass rally in the capital Urumqi, state media said, as authorities rolled out a rapid-response air patrol system to quell unrest that the government blames on Islamist militants.
State media that Xinjiang`s spending on public security jumped 19.3 percent in 2016 to more than 30 billion yuan ($4.37 billion).
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