(A Closer Look at China) Video Connection "East, West, North, South, Central", Xi Jinping's New Year Wishes

  China News Agency, Beijing, January 19th, title: Video connection "East, West, South, North, China", Xi Jinping's New Year wishes

  China News Agency reporter Huang Yuqin Liang Xiaohui

  "'Every festive season I miss my relatives'. During the Spring Festival, I care about the cadres and the masses at the grassroots level." As the Chinese Lunar New Year is approaching, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited and expressed condolences via video link on the 18th. Grassroots cadres and the masses.

On January 18, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission visited grassroots cadres and the masses via video link in Beijing, and extended good wishes for the New Year to people of all ethnic groups across the country (composite photo).

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi and Li Tao

  The Spring Festival has a special meaning in the hearts of Chinese people.

In the past ten years, on the eve of the Spring Festival, Xi Jinping would go to the grassroots, ask for warmth, listen to the voices of the people, and send blessings.

This year, Heilongjiang, Fujian, Xinjiang, Henan, Beijing, Sichuan and other places were connected by video. Xi Jinping said, "There are more places to see, including east, west, north, south, and middle. It has a strong flavor of the new year and feels everyone's happiness and joy."

  During the connection, from medical staff on the front line of epidemic prevention to elderly friends in welfare homes, from employees of energy supply enterprises to employees of high-speed rail stations, and passengers on the road... Xi Jinping talked with them one by one, caring about people's livelihood and expressing New Year's wishes: "My biggest wish is that everyone can have a happy new year."

Pay attention to the elderly and rural epidemic prevention

  At present, the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic has entered a new stage, and it is still in a tough time.

Xi Jinping is very concerned about the prevention and control of the epidemic and the treatment of patients.

During the video connection, he first communicated with medical staff and hospitalized patients, asking in detail about the situation of fever clinic admissions, intensive care, drug allocation, and patient recovery after the optimization and adjustment of prevention and control measures.

He not only set the key points for the prevention and control of the epidemic at this stage, emphasizing "protecting health and preventing severe illness", but also cheered for everyone, saying that "the dawn is ahead, and persistence is victory!"

On January 18, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission visited grassroots cadres and the masses via video link in Beijing, and extended good wishes for the New Year to people of all ethnic groups across the country.

This is Xi Jinping's cordial exchange with the medical staff of the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University in Heilongjiang Province through video connection.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Tao

  The focus of China's epidemic prevention and control has shifted from infection prevention to medical treatment. The elderly are the key groups for protection, and rural areas with relatively weak medical resources are even more difficult for epidemic prevention and control.

Xi Jinping pointed out that "the elderly are the top priority of the current epidemic prevention and control", "I am most worried about the rural areas and the vast number of farmers."

  Therefore, Xi Jinping asked nursing homes, welfare homes, etc. to strengthen cooperation with medical institutions to promote vaccination.

He also particularly emphasized that the "five-level secretaries" should focus on rural prevention and control just like poverty alleviation.

  "People first, life first", the concept that China has always adhered to in epidemic prevention and control has been transformed into specific deployments to protect the "health" of the people.

"Vegetable Basket", "Rice Bag" and "Fruit Plate"

  "Food is the most important thing for the people". In the past ten years, from the Wuquan Vegetable Market in Chengguan District, Lanzhou City, to the Aimin Community Supermarket in Chugulan Street, Xilinhot City, and to the Spring Festival Shopping Street in Kunming, in Xi Jinping's Spring Festival footprints, "vegetable baskets ""Rice bags" and "fruit plates" and other things related to the happiness of the people are what he pays special attention to.

On January 18, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission visited grassroots cadres and the masses via video link in Beijing, and extended good wishes for the New Year to people of all ethnic groups across the country.

This is Xi Jinping's cordial exchange with merchants in the Beijing Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market and people who purchase new year products through a video connection.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shen Hong

  In this video connection, "food" has once again become the focus of Xi Jinping's concern.

He visited and condoled the left-behind merchants in the Beijing Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market and the people who purchased new year products through video, and asked in detail about market operations, wholesale prices, and food safety.

Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to enrich the festival market supply, ensure sufficient quantity, rich varieties, assured quality, and stable prices, "let the people enjoy the New Year happily and with peace of mind."

  "Vegetable baskets", "rice bags" and "fruit plates" are related to thousands of households.

The grain, oil, meat, eggs, and milk on the "small dining table" reflect the "big people's livelihood".

Keep people warm in winter

  The Spring Festival is a day for the reunion of thousands of families. In order to protect the lights of thousands of families, many people stick to their ordinary posts silently.

Right now, China is in the peak period of energy consumption in winter, and ensuring energy supply is related to people's livelihood.

  "During the Spring Festival, how do you ensure safe production and ensure a stable gas supply?" In the video connection, Xi Jinping communicated with the employees of the Kara Gas Gathering Area, the first station of the West-East Gas Pipeline, in the Lunnan Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation Center of Tarim Oilfield Company, and told them to stand Good jobs and good gas supply, "ensure the people to have a happy and peaceful Spring Festival".

On January 18, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission visited grassroots cadres and the masses via video link in Beijing, and extended good wishes for the New Year to people of all ethnic groups across the country.

This is Xi Jinping's cordial exchange with the employees of the Tarim Oilfield Company's Lunnan Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation Center, the first station of the West-to-East Gas Pipeline through a video connection.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhai Jianlan

  In China's energy landscape, the Tarim Oilfield is quite representative. It is the third largest oil and gas field on land in China and the main source of gas for the "West-to-East Gas Pipeline". provide assurance.

The normal operation of the Tarim Oilfield ensures the warmth of thousands of households through the winter.

  From one place to the whole country, Xi Jinping emphasized that we must adhere to the national "one game of chess", carefully organize and dispatch, do our best to ensure the supply and price stability of coal, electricity, oil and gas, prepare for extreme cold weather, keep the bottom line of people's livelihood and energy, and ensure the warmth of the people winter.

spring festival is a big deal

  China's Spring Festival travel is called "the world's largest annual population migration" by the outside world. This year's Spring Festival travel is the first after the epidemic prevention and control has entered a new stage. Officials estimate that the total number of passengers will be about 2.095 billion.

  "How are the epidemic prevention measures implemented? What measures have been taken for the security of the Spring Festival travel?" Xi Jinping video-connected to visit and condolences to the cadres and workers of the Zhengzhou East Railway Passenger Railway. Specific requirements such as minimizing the chance of cross-infection.

On January 18, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission visited grassroots cadres and the masses via video link in Beijing, and extended good wishes for the New Year to people of all ethnic groups across the country.

This is Xi Jinping's cordial exchange with the railway passenger transport cadres, staff and passengers of Zhengzhou East Railway Station through a video connection.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yan Yan

  As one of the largest high-speed rail stations in China, Zhengzhou East Railway Station is expected to send 3.37 million passengers during the Spring Festival travel rush this year.

Faced with this "sample" that reflects the overall situation of China's Spring Festival travel, Xi Jinping particularly emphasized that the Spring Festival travel is a major event related to the vital interests of the people, economic development and social stability.

The transportation department must "ensure the safe and healthy travel of the people, and ensure the smooth and orderly transportation of key materials."

  As big as a big country is, it also has its weight.

Xi Jinping once said that a myriad of things, in the final analysis, is a matter of thousands of households.

From the perspective of the outside world, whether it is "going to the grassroots level and chatting with everyone" every Chinese New Year, or the simultaneous connection of "east, west, north, south, and central" in this video, Xi Jinping's concern for "thousands of households" and his New Year wishes , conveying the unchanging original intention-"I will remember what the people worry about; I will do what the people hope for."

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