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As the nation's top legislative and advisory bodies meet in Beijing, President Xi Jinping is using his experience of life in the provinces to provide a 'hands-on' approach to different issues, as Zhao Shengnan reports.

How many Siberian tigers live in the wild in China? What do they eat? Can the species survive? Do boars live in the Changbaishan Mountains?

These aren't questions from a wildlife quiz, but a sample of the queries put forward by President Xi Jinping when he joined deputies of the National People's Congress on Monday to discuss environmental protection in the northeastern province of Jilin.