Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Guangzhou on Wednesday afternoon on
the fourth leg of his much-anticipated trip south ahead of the 40th
anniversary of the country’s reform and opening up.To get more
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After
attending the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge on Tuesday,
Xi also visited Guangdong province’s impoverished backwaters, pledging
that “no one would be left behind” in his poverty alleviation campaign.
State
television reported that Xi had visited an old district of Guangzhou,
the provincial capital, and inquired about cultural heritage protection
works.
A motorcade believed to be that of Xi also visited the campus
of Jinan University in Guangzhou in late afternoon, according to a South
China Morning Post reporter at the scene. The campus had been under
heavy security since the morning.Earlier on Wednesday, the president was
in the tech hub of Shenzhen, where he visited an exhibition
commemorating Guangdong’s pioneering part in the reforms, in which Xi’s
late father Xi Zhongxun played an early steering role.
Xi had
then visited the pilot economic zone of Qianhai, confirming earlier
reports by the Post. A motorcade arrived at the Qianhai zone’s
exhibition hall after 11am.
Security was high from dawn onwards in
Shenzhen, with a heavy presence of uniformed police and plain-clothes
personnel at both venues.
At the Shenzhen Reform and Opening-Up
Exhibition, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning
Exhibition, blockades were in place from about 8am on Wednesday, while a
police officer in Qianhai told the Post he had been on duty since 5am.
Xi’s
visit to the impoverished parts of Guangdong on Tuesday was seen as
highlighting China’s efforts to eliminate extreme poverty by 2020 by
resolving development gaps between rural and urban areas, one of the
major national policies he has championed.Guangdong, which has severe
income disparity between the affluent Pearl River Delta and rural
residents in its west and north, has been targeted because it has one of
China’s biggest wealth gaps.
After leaving the opening ceremony
of the 55km (34-mile) mega bridge in Zhuhai, Xi headed north to visit
the city of Yingde on Tuesday afternoon.
According to Communist Party
mouthpiece People’s Daily, he made a stop at Lianjiangkou township in
Yingde city, where he said that “no one would be left behind” in China’s
drive to eradicate extreme poverty.
It was reported that Xi had
spent the afternoon with workers in a toy factory and local households.
The president reportedly called on grass-roots party officials to speed
up modernisation while boosting rural economic development and
infrastructure.
He also made a stop at Yingde e-commerce market,
where he chatted with students at a training centre. He called for
targeted poverty alleviation measures to turn “weakness into potential”
while fostering balanced regional development in the delta’s backwaters.
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