President Xi Jinping sent his festive greetings on Wednesday to people throughout China ahead of Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year, which falls on Sunday.
The launch ceremony of a national reading campaign in celebration of the Spring Festival and a music concert themed on Major Cold were held in Taizhou on Jan 17.
Taizhou city released measures on Jan 13, designed to support businesses to expand their production and encourage employees to be on duty during the Spring Festival period.
Farmers in the county-level city of Xinghua – administered by the prefecture-level city of Taizhou in East China's Jiangsu province – are frantic right now with a series of bumper harvests, in the runup to the looming Spring Festival.