Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a rare public visit outside Beijing, traveling to the Xiong’an New Area in Hebei Province on March 23 with three of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) top officials, where he defended the controversial high-tech city development project as “entirely correct” amid growing skepticism over its progress.
According to Chinese state media Xinhua News Agency, Xi was accompanied by Premier Li Qiang, Xi’s chief of staff Cai Qi, and Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang during inspections of state-owned energy giant China Huaneng Group and a campus of Beijing No. 4 High School in Xiong’an.
