Hu calls for common prosperity for ethnic group   (Xinhua)  Updated: 2006-05-16 09:41  
Chinese President Hu Jintao, who has toured Yunnan Province over the past few 
days, has urged people of different ethnic groups to be united and make joint 
efforts to achieve common prosperity and development. 
 
 
 
 
   This undated picture shows 
 Chinese President Hu Jintao (R5) talks with local residents of Dai 
 minority at Manga Village of Gasa Town, Jinghong City, the Dai Autonomous 
 Prefecture of Xishuangbanna, southern Yunnan Province, southwest China. 
 [Xinhua] |    During his trip in this 
southwestern province, where a large ethnic population lives, the Chinese leader 
visited local villages, factories and research institutions, showing his 
interest in the implementation of a scientific concept of development and the 
building of a harmonious socialist society. 
In talks with local business people, Hu called for fundamental change in the 
mode of economic growth and readjustment in economic structure, in order to 
maintain a sound biological environment while achieving economic development and 
leading a rich life. 
 
 
 
 
   Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) 
 talks with local residents of Ginuo minority at Zhalu Village of Jinuoshan 
 Town, Jinghong City, the Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Xishuangbanna, 
 southern Yunnan Province, southwest China. 
[Xinhua] |    In his visit to local villages in 
Simao City, Hu questioned villagers on issues of family income, power supply, 
drinking water, schooling, and medical services. 
He called on a service center for poor urbanites and a help center for 
migrant workers from the countryside in Kunming, the provincial capital. He 
urged trade unions to help protect the rights of migrant workers. 
 The places Hu visited included a village of the Dai People, where villagers 
have improved their income through hard work, as well as a village of Jinuo 
People, a small ethnic group. 
 During his stay in these two ethnic villages, Hu greeted medical workers to 
celebrate the International Nurse Day on May 12. 
 Hu, who is also the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, had a 
meeting with senior Army officers from the barracks of the Chinese People's 
Liberation Army (PLA) in Kunming.  
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