Xi Tours Shandong Cornfields Ahead of Mid-July GDP Release as China Leadership Fans Out

3 articles · Updated · South China Morning Post · Jun 24

Xi Jinping visited cornfields and a village in Dezhou, Shandong, on Wednesday, putting food security and stable supplies at the center of a wider pre-data inspection drive.
Xinhua said Xi called for higher output and yields, more high-standard farmland, water- and energy-saving techniques, and stronger disaster mitigation.
The trip is part of a broader leadership push to collect frontline information before a mid-July GDP release and a late-July Politburo meeting on the economy.
He Lifeng toured Henan from Sunday to Tuesday to assess how innovative manufacturers are sustaining an export boom amid overseas uncertainty, while Liu Guozhong also inspected Jiangsu, China’s No. 2 provincial economy.

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