Xi Jinping visits residents affected by the floods before

CGTN publishes an article on the recent visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping in a village in the province of Liaoning, in northeast China, strongly affected by floods last August. The article highlights the president of the president to visit ordinary citizens before the spring festival, reviews the comforting moments of his visits and explains how XI actions strengthen his commitment to ensuring a happy life for the people.

Beijing, Jan 23, 2025 (Globe Newswire) – A little over a week of the Spring Festival, the most important party in the Chinese calendar, families affected by floods in the village of Zhujiagou, in the province Liaoning (northeast of China) are preparing to celebrate the Chinese party. New year in new houses.

Last August, torrential rains struck the county of Suizhong, in the Liaoning, causing serious floods and seriously affecting the life of 185,000 inhabitants in 110 villages distributed in 10 boroughs. The low -altitude village of Zhujiagou was among the hardest affected areas, with destroyed roads, more than 70 hectares of flooded agricultural land and more than 50 damaged houses, 41 of which were deemed unfit for repair.

The 186 villagers of the 41 affected households were collectively relocated to a new site on higher land. A construction project then started in early September to ensure that residents can have a roof before the arrival of cold winter in northeast China. On October 24, 2024, all these villagers had moved into newly built houses.

Braving icy temperatures, President Xi Jinping took the time, despite his busy schedule, to visit the villagers of Zhujiagou on Wednesday.

XI, who is also secretary general of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (PCC), inspected the progress of restoration and reconstruction after the disaster and questioned the inhabitants about the quality of the reconstructed houses and the level of their conditions of daily life.

“Huludao suffered serious floods last year. I was worried about you and I came to see you before the spring party,” Xi told the villagers.

“What I saw today relieves me,” he added.

“People can always count on the party and the government”

Noting a number of natural disasters that occurred across the country last year, XI expressed its conviction on Wednesday that restoration and reconstruction in the affected areas would give good results.

“We have always given priority to people,” said Xi. “The people can always count on the party and the government in the most difficult moments, and we will help them to overcome the difficulties and to rebuild their houses.”

If we look at the traces of the president's visits before spring festival, the “post-catastrophe reconstruction” was a major aspect to be tackled.

In addition to his recent visit to Zhujiagou, last February, Mr. Xi visited the people affected by the floods in the village of Diliubu, in the municipality of Tianjin. As he said to the villagers: “It is only when the population is safe that the country will be able to thrive”, adding that the central leadership of the party has “resolved to improve the means of subsistence of the population By trying to strengthen the construction of water conservation projects and flood control ”. “.

In January 2022, he braved the snow to visit the inhabitants of a small village called Fengnanyuan, in the province of Shanxi, in the north of China, which had been touched by the floods of autumn. “The determination of the CCP to ensure that all Chinese live a happy life has been unchanged for more than a century and it will not weaken,” said Xi.

He also went to Yingxiu, a commune in the county of Wenchuan in the province of Sichuan in February 2018, which was the epicenter of a major earthquake which cost the lives of tens of thousands of people in 2008. “My job is to serve the people,” said Xi during his visit. visit.

Spend time with people

The visit to the Liaoning continues a tradition that Xi has maintained for 13 consecutive years: to visit people at the primary and local level before the spring festival, leaving many comforting moments.

During a pre-festival inspection in Zhangjiakou, in the Hebei province, in January 2017, Xi went to the village of Desheng, where he helped a villager to meticulously calculate household income and expenses.

In February 2016, XI visited the village of Shenshan, in the Jiangxi province, and joined the villagers to prepare for the festive snack.cibaA traditional sticky rice cake. He joked by saying that hammering the snack with a mallet was a good training.

During his inspection in the north of the Autonomous Region of Interior Mongolia in January 2014, Xi went to a child protection home where he used sign language to interact with the hearing impaired. In his latest New Year's message, Xi Jinping again stressed that “among all the tasks awaiting us, the most important is to ensure happy life for our people”. The man in charge of the president is a brilliant demonstration of actions that reinforce his words.

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