Xi Jinping Reemerges in Sign China’s Secretive Summer Retreat Is Over
- President of world’s second-largest economy last seen July 31
- Annual conclave likely coincided with Pelosi’s Taiwan trip
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China’s President Xi Jinping has made his first public appearance in two weeks, in a sign that the Communist Party’s annual secretive summer retreat on the Yellow Sea has ended.
Xi reemerged in Jinzhou City, Liaoning province, on Tuesday, where he urged officials in the northeastern region to speed up industrial restructuring and visited a museum celebrating his party’s victory in the final stages of China’s civil war, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.