Xi visits Yunnan on inspection tour ahead of Chinese New Year
Updated: January 20, 2020 07:41Xinhua
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits a village of the Wa ethnic group to learn about poverty alleviation efforts and extend his Chinese New Year's greetings to the villagers in Qingshui township of the city of Tengchong, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Jan 19, 2020. Xi visited Yunnan province on Jan 19 on an inspection tour ahead of Chinese New Year. [Photo/Xinhua]
KUNMING — Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visited Southwest China's Yunnan province on Jan 19 on an inspection tour ahead of Chinese New Year.
Xi went to a village of the Wa ethnic group in Qingshui township of the city of Tengchong on the afternoon of Jan 19 to learn about poverty alleviation efforts and extend his Chinese New Year's greetings to the villagers.
He also visited the old town of Heshun, a gateway on the ancient Southern Silk Road that linked China's Sichuan and Yunnan with Myanmar and India, to learn about exchanges, historical and cultural inheritance, as well as ecological and environmental protection along the trade route.
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits a village of the Wa ethnic group to learn about poverty alleviation efforts and extend his Chinese New Year's greetings to the villagers in Qingshui township of the city of Tengchong, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Jan 19, 2020. Xi visited Yunnan province on Jan 19 on an inspection tour ahead of Chinese New Year. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits a village of the Wa ethnic group to learn about poverty alleviation efforts and extend his Chinese New Year's greetings to the villagers in Qingshui township of the city of Tengchong, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Jan 19, 2020. Xi visited Yunnan province on Jan 19 on an inspection tour ahead of Chinese New Year. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits a village of the Wa ethnic group to learn about poverty alleviation efforts and extend his Chinese New Year's greetings to the villagers in Qingshui township of the city of Tengchong, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Jan 19, 2020. Xi visited Yunnan province on Jan 19 on an inspection tour ahead of Chinese New Year. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits a village of the Wa ethnic group to learn about poverty alleviation efforts and extend his Chinese New Year's greetings to the villagers in Qingshui township of the city of Tengchong, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Jan 19, 2020. Xi visited Yunnan province on Jan 19 on an inspection tour ahead of Chinese New Year. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits a village of the Wa ethnic group to learn about poverty alleviation efforts and extend his Chinese New Year's greetings to the villagers in Qingshui township of the city of Tengchong, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Jan 19, 2020. Xi visited Yunnan province on Jan 19 on an inspection tour ahead of Chinese New Year. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits a village of the Wa ethnic group to learn about poverty alleviation efforts and extend his Chinese New Year's greetings to the villagers in Qingshui township of the city of Tengchong, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Jan 19, 2020. Xi visited Yunnan province on Jan 19 on an inspection tour ahead of Chinese New Year. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits a village of the Wa ethnic group to learn about poverty alleviation efforts and extend his Chinese New Year's greetings to the villagers in Qingshui township of the city of Tengchong, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Jan 19, 2020. Xi visited Yunnan province on Jan 19 on an inspection tour ahead of Chinese New Year. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits a village of the Wa ethnic group to extend his Chinese New Year's greetings to the villagers in Qingshui township of the city of Tengchong, Southwest China's Yunnan province, Jan 19, 2020. Xi visited Yunnan province on Jan 19 on an inspection tour ahead of Chinese New Year. [Photo/Xinhua]
