Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, inspects the estuary of the Yellow River in the city of Dongying, East China's Shandong province, Oct 20, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

JINAN - Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Wednesday inspected the estuary of the Yellow River in the city of Dongying, east China's Shandong Province.

Xi visited a dock at the estuary, an ecological monitoring center and a national-level nature reserve of the Yellow River Delta.

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He checked the river's waterways, the ecological environment of the wetlands in the river delta, and learned about the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin.