Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, inspected the city of Baoji in northwest China's Shaanxi Province and Tianshui City in the neighboring Gansu Province.

Xi visited the two cities from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday morning.

In Baoji, he visited the Baoji Bronze Ware Museum and an ecological park along the Weihe River to learn about the local efforts to enhance the protection and utilization of cultural relics, as well as the ecological conservation of the Weihe River, the largest tributary of the Yellow River. 

While inspecting the museum, he stressed the importance of developing a sense of reverence and affection for Chinese civilization and called for the passing on of China's fine traditional culture from generation to generation.

In Tianshui, Xi went to the Fuxi Temple, a local apple production base and the Maijishan Grottoes to learn about the protection and preservation of local cultural heritage and the development of the modern specialty fruit industry in mountainous areas.

The Fuxi Temple is dedicated to Fuxi, a figure in Chinese mythology.

(With input from Xinhua)