Xi inspects Spring Festival shopping fair in Kunming

KUNMING -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Monday visited the Kunming international convention and exhibition center in Southwest China's Yunnan province.

Xi visited the center to learn about the supply of necessities and the sale of domestic and foreign commodities ahead of the Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year.

Xi talked warmly with the crowd and extended his Chinese New Year's greetings to people of all ethnic groups in the country.