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Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits a Yellow River management point to learn about the management, protection and flood control project construction of the Yellow River in Lanzhou, northwest China’s Gansu Province, Aug. 21, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Ye)
Source: Xinhua
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits the Jiayu Pass, a famed part of the Great Wall in Jiayuguan City, during his inspection tour of northwest China’s Gansu Province, Aug. 20, 2019. Xi also listened to an introduction to the historical and cultural background of the Great Wall and the passes in the Hexi Corridor, part of the ancient Silk Road in northwest China. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)
Source: Xinhua
BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — “A spring breeze blew into Sijiqing.”
This is how seniors at the Beijing-based nursing home recalled a visit in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission.
During the visit to the Sijiqing Home for the Elderly, Xi chatted with senior citizens, asked them about their health, families and lives.
Xi stressed the need to improve the management and service quality of elderly care institutions to ensure that every senior citizen can live a carefree, healthy, comfortable and happy life.
More than five years on, Liu Jinwen, a member of the elderly fashion models team at Sijiqing, said the visit had a great impact on them.
“Senior citizens should maintain a positive outlook on life and spend their old age gracefully,” Liu said. “To that end, we set up the models team to make our lives more ‘beautiful!'”
Liu is just one of the growing number of happy seniors in China.
Under Xi’s leadership, the country has over the past few years formulated a series of measures to boost elderly care and witnessed a marked improvement of the lives of the senior citizens.
BETTER NURSING HOMES
The services at nursing homes are related to the happiness of more than 200 million old people in China, especially the 40 million of them who have lost the ability in full or in part to take care of themselves.
In 2017, a four-year campaign was launched nationwide to boost nursing homes’ service quality. More rules and regulations on the management of elderly care institutions have also been drawn up.
At Sijiqing, a lot of cultural activities were organized. A “Silver Age” college was set up. And the nursing home teamed up with a local hospital to provide fast access for senior citizens to quality medical treatment.
“It’s really convenient now,” said Zhang Jin, a Sijiqing nursing home resident.
IMPROVED COMMUNITY-LEVEL SERVICES
Another field of senior care that has benefited a lot from policy support is community-level services.
Community-based elderly care is important to China’s old-age care system. About 90 percent of the Chinese elderly prefer to spend their later years at home, 6 percent at community-level elderly care centers and only 4 percent at nursing homes, according to statistics.
But community-level elderly care centers also play a key role in providing food and medical services to senior citizens who opt to stay at home.
Liu Jianguo, 86, and his wife are among the people who benefit.
The couple, living in the southeastern city of Fuzhou, go to the community elderly daycare center almost every day.
“My wife and I usually spend the whole day here,” Liu said, praising the center for its environment, facilities and staff.
Across China, all urban communities and more than half of rural communities had established community-based old-age service facilities as of the end of 2018.
In China, a comprehensive elderly care service system is taking shape, meeting the needs of the elderly who prefer to spend later years at home, community-level centers or nursing homes.
Source: Xinhua
BEIJING, July 6 (Xinhua) — Valuable tea plants are flourishing on around 67 hectares of tea farms in Qingchuan County of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, bringing new hope to impoverished locals.
“Tea plants are growing so well that I believe our lives will be better and better in the future,” said Jiao Yuan’en, a 66-year-old local villager, in the upbeat mood.
Jiao’s tea plants are grown from seedlings donated by tea farmers, thousands of miles away in Anji of eastern Zhejiang Province, as a gift to help alleviate poverty.
In April 2018, 20 tea farmers from Huangdu village of Anji, a well-known tea planting area, wrote a letter to Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, proposing to donate 15 million tea seedlings to poor areas.
Responding to their letter, Xi praised their move and called on Party members to share the Party’s burdens and encourage those who get rich first to help latecomers in the battle against poverty.
With Xi paying close attention to this project, the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development chose 34 impoverished villages in provinces of Guizhou, Hunan and Sichuan to receive the seedlings.
By the end of March this year, a total of 16.65 million seedlings from Huangdu village were planted in around 358 hectares of land, involving 1,862 needy households, and more than 95 percent of the seedlings have survived.
In Guizhou, the donated tea seedlings helped inspire other locals to engage in tea planting, and in Hunan, tea farms were incorporated into local tourism.
The kind-hearted action from Anji farmers is expected to help 5,839 villagers improve their livelihood and lift them out of poverty when the tea plants are ripe for harvest in the spring of 2020.
China aims to lift all rural residents living below the current poverty line out of poverty by the year 2020.
Source: Xinhua
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits Tantou Village in Yudu County, Ganzhou City, during an inspection tour of east China’s Jiangxi Province on May 20, 2019. At the home of veteran Sun Guanfa, a descendant of a Red Army martyr, Xi chatted with Sun’s family. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)
NANCHANG, May 20 (Xinhua) — Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visited Tantou Village in Yudu County, Ganzhou City, during an inspection tour of east China’s Jiangxi Province on Monday afternoon.
At the home of veteran Sun Guanfa, a descendant of a Red Army martyr, Xi chatted with Sun’s family and local officials, and learned in detail about the production developments and life improvements of people in the old revolutionary base.
Source: Xinhua
BEIJING, April 28 (Xinhua) — China will hold a gathering to mark the centenary of the May Fourth Movement at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will attend the event and deliver an important speech.
The event will be broadcast live by China Media Group and on http://www.xinhuanet.com. It will also be rebroadcast simultaneously on major news websites including people.com.cn, cctv.com and china.com.cn as well as on news apps run by People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency and China Central Television.
Source: Xinhua
Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement – (May 1919, student protest that resulted in massacre).
Guests unveil the English and French editions of a compilation of President Xi Jinping’s discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative during a launch ceremony in Beijing, capital of China, April 24, 2019. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei)
BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) — The English and French editions of a compilation of President Xi Jinping’s discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative were published Wednesday.
The book contains 42 articles from September 2013 to July 2018 by Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.
The new editions were translated and published by the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration and the Foreign Languages Press.
Source: Xinhua
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, talks with villagers to learn about the progress of poverty alleviation and in solving prominent problems including meeting the basic need of food and clothing and guaranteeing compulsory education, basic medical care and safe housing, in Huaxi Village of Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County, southwest China’s Chongqing, April 15, 2019. Xi went on an inspection tour in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality Monday. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)
CHONGQING, April 15 (Xinhua) — Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, went on an inspection tour in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality Monday.
Source: Xinhua
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attends a tree-planting activity in Tongzhou District in Beijing, capital of China, April 8, 2019. Other Party and state leaders, including Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng and Wang Qishan, also attended the activity. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)
BEIJING, April 8 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday stressed efforts to carry forward the Chinese nation’s tradition of loving, planting and protecting trees, and to involve the whole society in promoting afforestation.
Wide participation by everyone in China should be encouraged in pushing for large-scale afforestation of the country to achieve more tangible results, said Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission.
He made the remarks while attending a tree-planting activity in east Beijing’s Tongzhou District and planting saplings of different types of trees.
Other Party and state leaders, including Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng and Wang Qishan, also attended the activity.
Xi talked with school children who are also attending the tree planting activity, asking about their study and sport exercise, urging them to foster awareness about environmental protection starting in childhood, and encouraging them to build a more beautiful motherland with their own hands.
Xi said this year marks the 40th anniversary of National Tree Planting Day. In the past 40 years, China’s forest area and forest stock volume have doubled, respectively, and China is home to the world’s largest man-made forest. The proportion of China’s contribution to the world’s vegetation increase also ranked first.
At the same time, the lack of forests and vegetation, and fragile ecological environment are still problems that need tremendous efforts, said Xi.
Xi stressed that the Chinese nation has a good tradition of loving, planting and protecting trees. Wide participation by everyone in China should be encouraged and officials at all levels should set examples as volunteer tree planters.
Efforts should be taken to promote the high-quality development of afforestation, coordinate management of mountains, waters, forests, farmland, lakes and grassland, continuously advance the building of forest city and forest countryside, Xi said.
Xi called for solid efforts to improve people’s living environment, develop a green economy, and strengthen forest management and protection to achieve more tangible results.
Source: Xinhua
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, meets with deputies from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and armed police before attending a plenary meeting of the delegation of the PLA and armed police at the second session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing, capital of China, March 12, 2019. Xi delivered an important speech at the meeting on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) — President Xi Jinping on Tuesday stressed fulfilling the set targets and tasks of national defense and military development as scheduled.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks when attending a plenary meeting of the delegation of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and armed police force at the second session of the 13th National People’s Congress, China’s national legislature.
This year is the key year for completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
The entire armed forces must clearly understand the importance and urgency of implementing the 13th Five-Year Plan for military development, firm up their resolve, intensify the sense of mission, forge ahead with a pioneering spirit, and go all out to carry out the plan so as to ensure that the set targets and tasks are fulfilled as scheduled, he said.
Xi called on the whole army to adhere to the guidance of the thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, fully implement the Party’s thinking on strengthening the military for the new era and the military strategy for new conditions, concentrate on war preparedness, and intensify reform and innovation.
On implementation of the plan, Xi stressed that it is imperative to strengthen overall planning and coordination, as well as make breakthroughs in key areas.
Xi pointed out that it is necessary to take into consideration the overall situation and coordinate the task plans, resources, and management procedures to ensure orderly advancement of various projects.
Focusing on the overall layout of the plan, the military should give prominence to key projects including urgent necessities for military preparedness, crucial support for combat systems, and coordinated projects for the reform of national defense and armed forces, he noted.
Xi stressed the formulation of the 14th Five-Year Plan for military development should serve the demands of the national development, security and military strategies, and should take into account both the actual condition and long-term development needs.
Source: Xinhua
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