The freezing cold cannot stop the spread of warmth and love among people. January 27 was Xiaonian Festival, a traditional lunar festival commemorating the legendary "Kitchen God". Braving the unmelted snow, Chen Run'er, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and secretary of the CPC Changsha Municipal Committee, went to Ningxiang County to visit the old with no family in the local nursing homes and laid-off workers.
He also inspected the grass-roots CPC organizations and enterprises with financial difficulties, to which he present New Year greetings as well as cares on behalf of the Party and the government. Municipal leaders such as Cheng Shuiquan, Zhang Jianguo and Li Jun accompanied the visit.