At the Kuaizixiang police station in the provincial capital of Nanchang, Hu said the station has been a model among the country's public security departments and the police officers have been approved by local people with their responsible and conscientious work. In particular, the police forces from Jiangxi had been outstanding in the earthquake relief efforts in Sichuan Province last May.

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R Front) shakes hands and talks with a passenger at the Nanchang Railway Station in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province, Jan. 26, 2009. Chinese President Hu Jintao visited railway staff members, China Mobile branch workers and police officers on duty and ordinary people in Nanchang Jan. 26, the first day of the Spring Festival, or Chinese traditional lunar New Year, to extend his festival greetings. [Xinhua]

Hu, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the visit in the company of Su Rong, secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and Governor Wu Xinxiong. He also listened to the work reports made by the provincial officials.

Commending the economic and social achievements in the province, Hu urged local officials to share both happiness and woes with the people, enhance their awareness of responsibility with good work performance, show a pioneering spirit to overcome difficulties, and stay away from illegal personal interests and temptations.

It was the sixth year in a row that Hu spent the holiday for family reunions outside Beijing with ordinary citizens.

On this year's Lunar New Year's eve, Hu visited a famous revolutionary base Jinggangshan, a city in Jiangxi Province, and Premier Wen Jiabao was on his seventh visit to the worst-hit areas in the May 12 earthquake.

Wen even cooked a dish of Hui Guo Rou (Sauted sliced pork with pepper) for a quake-hit household in a makeshift house in Yingxiu Town, the epicenter of the quake.

Last year, Hu went to Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Wen visited Jiangxi Province. Both regions had been heavily hit by the worst winter storm in five decades.

Hu spent the previous festivals in Hubei, Guizhou, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, and Wen in Henan, Shandong and Liaoning provinces.