Chinese president hopeful on Tibet talks: Report

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"I hope that the contacts with the Dalai Lama's side from today will yield a positive outcome," Hu told Japanese reporters in Beijing, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency.

Hu said he hoped the Dalai Lama would take concrete actions to stop violence, attempts to disrupt the Beijing Olympics and split China. That would create conditions for further consultation, Xinhua said.

"Our policy on the Dalai Lama is clear and consistent, and the door of dialogue remains open", Xinhua quoted Hu as saying.

Hu said the meeting came after repeated requests by the Dalai Lama's representatives to resume talks, according to Xinhua.

Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile based in Dharmsala, India, said the envoys were in the southern city of Shenzhen. He said he didn't know any other details.

The talks were scheduled to last for a day or two, he said.

"We are positive that something good will come out of it," Samdhong Rinpoche told The Associated Press.

The Dalai Lama's envoys, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, were meeting with two vice ministers of the United Front Work Department, Zhu Weiqun and Sita, who are designated to deal with influential people in groups outside China's Communist Party.

The meeting location was not announced but a large group of reporters from Japan and Hong Kong were staking out a gated development of villas where high-ranking leaders are known to stay in a leafy suburb of Shenzhen.

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