During an inspection tour of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in April, he visited a food-processing zone for luosifen rice noodles, a local specialty in the city of Liuzhou. He called on local people to develop their small businesses into a major industry, saying that when they encounter difficulties, the Party and the government will give them support.

In April 2018, when he visited a village during an inspection tour of Hainan province, he stressed developing specialty industries in rural vitalization, and urged support for farmers to develop agriculture with local characteristics and rural tourism to increase farmers' incomes through various means.

Also on Monday, Xi visited a residential community in Xining, where he learned about its efforts in strengthening Party building at the grassroots level and public services.

He stressed that strong grassroots-level Party organizations are needed to provide good services in communities for the public. "Whenever I go on an inspection tour, I visit rural villages and urban communities to see how people's lives are going," Xi said.