Xi Jinping inspects NE China city ahead of Spring Festival

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Thursday inspected Shenyang, the capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province.

Xi made the trip to the city shortly before the Spring Festival, the most important festival for the Chinese people, which falls on January 29 this year.

Xi visited a food market and a residential community in Shenyang, where he learned about the supply of goods during the holiday season and measures in place to meet residents' daily needs and optimize public services, as well as details of progress made in improving people's lives.

For more than a decade, Xi, as the top leader of the Party and the state, has made it a tradition to spend time with ordinary people ahead of the Spring Festival.