In the first three days of the Spring Festival, China's Lunar New Year, Chinese President Hu Jintao visited local residents, workers who stuck to their posts in the week-long holidays and needy families in northwestern Gansu Province. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

President Hu Jintao spends Spring Festival in Gansu

    LANZHOU, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- In the first three days of the Spring Festival, China's Lunar New Year, Chinese President Hu Jintao visited local residents, workers who stuck to their posts in the week-long holidays and needy families in northwestern Gansu Province.

Chinese leaders reach out to poor on holiday eve 

    BEIJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao marked the eve of the Year of Boar by frying dough twists, eating steamed potatoes and cutting paper window decorations with poor farmers in the barren countryside of northwestern Gansu Province.