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26-01-09 Hu visits communist revolutionary base before Lunar New Year

Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the eastern province of Jiangxi on Saturday and Sunday,calling on revolutionary veterans and model workers ahead of the Lunar New Year,China's most important holiday for family gatherings.It was the sixth year in a row that the president spent the holiday outside Beijing with ordinary citizens.Hu,also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, visited veterans who had served in the Red Army and people in the city of Jinggangshan.Jinggangshan was a famous revolutionary base where Mao Zedong led the Red Army to fight against his enemies during wartime.During Hu's visit to Huangyangjie,a famous battlefield near Jinggangshan,and a revolution museum in the city,Hu called on local work models,veterans and their descendants,and inquired about their livelihood