Xi's special bond with children

Concern about children in disaster-hit areas

On May 21, 2013, while inspecting a school devastated by an earthquake in Lushan county of Sichuan province, Xi told students to turn their trauma into a source of strength, urging them to be strong, brave and united.

In January 2015, Xi visited a quake-hit area of Ludian county in Yunnan province to check on victims and see how reconstruction work was faring. During the trip, he played with the children and expressed his wish that they would grow up healthy at the children's playroom in a temporary resettlement site in Ganjiazhai village.