Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, started visiting southwest China s Guizhou Province on Wednesday, about one week before the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year.
For nine years in a row, Xi has made it a tradition to visit ordinary people, especially the disadvantaged groups, ahead of the Spring Festival, the most important holiday on the Chinese calendar.
The following are some of the most memorable moments of Xi s interactions with these people during his pre-Spring Festival tours.
Xi went to the home of farmer Li Fashun in Simola Wa Village, Yunnan Province, where he learned about the family s daily life, and was invited to join the family in making rice cakes. He also beat a wooden drum of the Wa ethnic group three times, a local ritual activity to bless the coming year.
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Bamu Yubumu walks with her children on a newly paved concrete road in Taoyuan Village, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China s Sichuan Province, Jan. 22, 2021. A young mother leaned arduously forward to balance the weight of an oversized luggage on her back and a tiny baby in her arm, as she fought her steps ahead. This was the image that Xinhua reporter Zhou Ke captured near the Nanchang Railway Station in Nanchang, east China s Jiangxi Province, Jan. 30, 2010. The photo entitled Baby, Mom Takes You Home touched the hearts of millions when it made headline on hundreds of media across the country. No one, however, was able to identify this brave and perseverant mother until Zhou Ke managed to locate her after 11 years of unremitting quest. Bamu Yubumu, now 32 and a mother of four children, is a resident in Taoyuan Village, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China s Sichuan Province. She and her f
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‘World’s factory of violin’ trains farmers into craftsmen, lifts region out of poverty
By Shan Jie and Lu Yameng Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/22 19:38:40
A woman checks hand-made violins at a facotry in Queshan, Central China s Henan Province. Photo: Courtesy of Guo Xinshe
Wang Jintang is the Antonio Stradivari of Zhugou village.
The violins and cellos Wang made have been played by musicians around China and the world.
Zhugou village is a community in Queshan county, Central China s Henan Province, known as the world s factory of violins. For every 10 hand-made violins sold around the world, nine are made in Queshan.
2020-12-21 09:39 By: Xinhua
A woman shows the number of her new house during a ceremony for new houses of poverty alleviation relocation in Butuo County in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China s Sichuan Province, June 21, 2020. China has made great achievements in poverty relief that has impressed the world, with almost 100 million people lifted out of poverty. (Xinhua/Xu Bingjie)