Top leader celebrates Spring Festival with Chinese public

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-01-28 10:07

NANCHANG - President Hu Jintao spent his sixth consecutive Spring Festival, a major occasion for family reunions in China, with ordinary people instead of his family.

Chinese President Hu Jintao(L2) shakes hands with a policewoman on duty at the Kuaizixiang police station, Nanchang, East China's Jiangxi Province, January 26, 2009. [Xinhua]

He visited railway staff and police on duty and ordinary people in eastern Jiangxi Province Monday, the first day of the Lunar New Year, to extend festival greetings.

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At the Nanchang Railway Station Monday morning, Hu talked with passengers and ticket staff to check whether travelers had difficulty in buying tickets.

Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, began on January 26 this year. Tens of millions of people are on the move in a nationwide travel rush for the most celebrated Chinese festival in a year.

"You've been working hard. I hope you can think of more ways to help more passengers get tickets," the president told a sales clerk in the ticketing hall.

In the railway command center and on the platform, Hu inquired about passenger flow and transport schedules. He said he expected to see that railway authorities worked out efficient schedules, improved service and ensured safety.

With more than 600 million cell phone users in China making a huge number of calls during the festival, Hu went to the Jiangxi provincial branch of the China Mobile to inspect the company's operation, service and management.

Hu said he was happy to learn that the company's call center also offers job information for migrant workers and answers inquiries from local farmers.

Extending his New Year greetings to the staff on duty, Hu said that "people cannot do without mobile phones in their work and daily life, the service center should improve service and contribute more to local economic and social development."

Jiangxi Guohong Group is an industrialized agricultural production base, helping farmers plant fruits and vegetables, raise pigs and process farming and sideline products.

Seeing the produce on display, Hu said that the central government has strengthened policies and measures favorable to farmers amid the severe economic situation, as large numbers of migrant workers are returning to their rural homes from coastal provinces.

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