Editor's note: 2023 has witnessed a tight schedule for President Xi Jinping, who visited various places across the country to hear local work reports, engage with diverse communities and address key issues. Xi's concern spanned every aspect of Chinese modernization drive, encompassing regional development, sci-tech innovation, rural revitalization, cultural promotion, and people's wellbeing. As the year draws to an end, let's review the locations Xi inspected and the focal points of his visits.
President Xi Jinping visits a port in Zhanjiang city, South China's Guangdong province, April 10, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi underscored that the strength of the Chinese market will be even more prominent as China accelerates its steps to foster a new development pattern and improve its business climate while global economic growth remains sluggish.
President Xi Jinping greets residents while inspecting the Xiong'an New Area, North China's Hebei province, May 10, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]
The development of the Xiong'an New Area is a national project of millennial significance and should be pushed forward with concrete actions and sustained efforts, President Xi said.
President Xi Jinping visits the Yuncheng Museum in Yuncheng city, North China's Shanxi province, May 16, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi emphasized that the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin is a major strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee from the perspective of sustainable development for the Chinese nation and Chinese civilization.
President Xi Jinping talks with students at a science classroom of Beijing Yuying School in Beijing, May 31, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi urged Chinese children in the new era to have high aspirations and dreams, enjoy studying and working, be grateful and friendly, and have the courage to innovate and strive.
President Xi Jinping visits a state forestry area in Linhe district of Bayannur, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, June 6, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi encouraged Inner Mongolia to promote the transformation and upgrading of its traditional energy sector, expand the development of green energy and develop itself into a key national energy base.
President Xi Jinping visits Purple Mountain Laboratories in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, July 6, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi told local officials that Jiangsu should take the lead in making new breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation, creating an important national hub for industrial technological innovation and promoting innovation-driven, high-quality development.
President Xi Jinping visits the Sanxingdui Museum in Deyang city, Southwest China's Sichuan province, July 26, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi emphasized that cultural relic protection and restoration is a long-term task, and he called for increasing national support, stepping up the training of relevant personnel, and carrying forward rigorous and meticulous craftsmanship.
President Xi Jinping visits an exhibition of cultural artifacts in the Hanzhong Museum, Hanzhong city, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, July 29, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi noted that cultural artifacts are a vehicle of a civilization and culture, and carry forward the ethos of a nation. It is imperative to give full play to the vital role of museums in protecting, carrying forward, studying and showcasing human civilization.
President Xi Jinping delivers a speech when he is briefed about the work of the Party committee and government of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Aug 26, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi pointed out that Xinjiang-related work holds a crucial position in the overall work of the Party and the nation, and concerns the building of a strong country and the progress of national rejuvenation.
President Xi Jinping inspects the Beijicun, or "North Pole Village", a riverside border village in Mohe city, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, Sept 6, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]
President Xi noted the importance for the province to vigorously develop its tourism with distinctive cultural features by developing whole-industry chain development that involves ice and snow sports, equipment and tourism.
