Xi offers guidance to ethnic delegates

President Xi Jinping attended a gathering with ethnic minority lawmakers and political advisers on Saturday evening on the sidelines of the annual national legislative and political consultative sessions.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, along with other Party and State leaders, arrived at the banquet hall of the Great Hall of the People to applause from the group, who were clad in traditional ethnic dress.

Xi was greeted by Gesang Zhoigar, a deputy to the National People's Congress from Tibet who sat next to him. She told him about improved life in her village, where big changes in education, medical services, elderly care and housing have taken place.