Chinese Vice-President Zeng
Qinghong made a study tour in Changsha County in central
China's Hunan Province between February 3 and February 6, stressing
the importance of building socialist new countryside.
Zeng, also a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau
of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, went there
to monitor the ongoing campaign of maintaining the progressiveness
of CPC members in rural areas.
During his stay, Zeng visited villages and had dinners with
villagers. He urged local officials and CPC members to take the
lead in boosting rural economy to achieve prosperity and harmony in
the countryside.
His trip coincided with the Spring Festival, the beginning of
traditional Chinese Lunar New Year.
Zeng also visited the ancestral home of Hu Yaobang, late leader
of the CPC Central Committee, and the tomb of Yang Kaihui, the wife
of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong. In addition, he went to some
other memorial sites related to China's Democratic Revolution which
began in 1911, when the last feudal Qing Dynasty was toppled.
(Xinhua News Agency February 7, 2006)
