For the New Year's festival, the Jilin provincial Party secretary, Bayinchaolu, goes to an organic agriculture base near the city of Changchun, to encourage the increased production of winter vegetables as a way to increase farmers’ incomes, on Feb 6. [Photo/Xinhua]

He also writes traditional festival couplets for people in the village of Lujia to wish them a happy Chinese New Year. [Photo/Xinhua]

Bayinchaolu pays a special visit to the home of one villager, Yang Zuolin, who is in ill health and faces financial difficulties, where the Party secretary promises to get the government will meet Yang's and other families' needs the same day. [Photo/Xinhua]