Xi's new year inspections underpin people-oriented approach

Xi also greeted deliverymen on duty, stressing that priority should be given to solving employment problems and creating more jobs.

Deliverymen were also mentioned in his new year speech on Dec. 31, during which he extended gratitude to millions of hardworking people, such as deliverymen, sanitation workers and taxi drivers.

In the same speech, Xi said: "My heart goes out to the people living in hardship," and recollected his visits to impoverished villages in Sichuan, Shandong, Liaoning and Guangdong provinces, mentioning a series of names of ordinary person he met in 2018.