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Beijing — Chinese President Xi Jinping visited northeastern Liaoning province on Tuesday, state media reported, as he and other leaders emerged from a two-week absence from public activities to participate in the annual summer conclave.
President Xi Jinping visited a museum in Liaoning's Jinzhou city commemorating a key battle in 1948, state news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday.
Prior to Wednesday, there had been no coverage of Xi Jinping's activities by state media for his less than two weeks. His activities are usually reported almost daily. Beidaihe seaside resort east of Beijing.
Visitors and residents of Beidaihe say security has been particularly tight in recent weeks.
Beidaihe this year, as leaders are expected to deliberate on personnel ahead of his first party congress in his five years of the ruling Communist Party later this year. The conclave will be especially important.
President Xi is widely expected to secure his third term of office for an unprecedented five-year term at the upcoming Party Congress.
Premier Li Keqiang also appeared again this week after taking a break from official duties for the first time in two weeks. He traveled to the southern city of Shenzhen to hold an economic video conference with leaders of China's largest province on Tuesday.
While in Jinzhou, Xi inspected the local government's flood control efforts and interacted with people relaxing in a park, Xinhua reported.
President Xi visited the museum in the battle that enabled Mao Zedong's communists to seize control of northeastern China from the Kuomintang (Kuomintang), who fled to Taiwan after their defeat in 1949. Commemorates the
China continues to claim Taiwan as its own territory. Taiwan rejects China's sovereignty claims to it. (Reporting by Yew Lun Tian; Editing by Tony Munroe and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
