国内英语新闻:Senior CPC leader calls for better living standards in revolution cradle

XI'AN, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- A senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has called for improved living standards for people in the country's old revolutionary base areas.

He Guoqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the CPC's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, made the remarks during a visit to northwest China's Shaanxi Province from Oct. 21 to 24.

Shaanxi was the cradle of Chinese communists' revolution in the 1930s.

He Guoqiang (C front), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and chief of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, talks with the working staff at a plant of Xi'an Aircraft Industry (Group) Company Ltd. in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Oct. 24, 2010. He Guoqiang made an inspection tour in Shaanxi from Oct. 21 to 24.

Visiting regions hit by the devastating earthquake of May 12, 2008, He asked students and residents to study hard and contribute to the construction of their hometowns and the country.

He urged aviation experts at the Xi'an Aircraft Industry Co. Ltd. to improve the company's innovation abilities and acquire more core technologies so as to produce China's own large passenger jet aircraft as soon as possible.