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Image: Xi Jinping's 2025 Provincial "Inspection" Tours: Mapping the Message
Xi Jinping’s 2025 inspection tours across China reveal both the Party’s ambitions and its anxieties. His travels, throughout the year, spanned regions from the industrial belt to the reform-driven heartlands of the centre and the economic powerhouses of the south, where themes of technological self-reliance, energy security, regional connectivity and, most importantly, the Party’s authority dominated his addresses. The emphasis on inland development and border stability reflected Beijing’s intent to integrate peripheral provinces into national and transnational supply chains, linking domestic governance with the evolving geography of its Belt and Road Initiative through provinces such as Yunnan. Along the coast, in the provinces of Hainan and Guangdong, the narrative turned outward, with calls for innovation, global trade integration and maritime military readiness. Together, these domestic tours projected a vision of reinforcing economic and political stability at home as the foundation for confidence abroad. This infographic maps Xi Jinping’s key inspection tours across the country and highlights the meta-narratives shaping each provincial visit.
Prepared by
Ratish Mehta
Ratish Mehta is a Senior Research Associate at ORCA. He is the co-editor of the Special Issue on India’s Soft Power Diplomacy in South Asia and serves as the co-lead for the project ‘The Episodes of India-China Exchanges: Modern Bridges and Resonant Connections’, which is rooted in the desire to enhance public consciousness of cross-cultural contributions of both societies. Ratish’s area of interest includes understanding the value of Narratives, Rhetoric and Ideology in State and Non-State interactions, deconstructing political narratives in Global Affairs as well as focusing on India’s Foreign Policy interests in the Global South and South Asia. He was previously associated with The Pranab Mukherjee Foundation and has worked on projects such as Indo-Sino relations, History of the Constituent Assembly of India and the Evolution of its Democratic Institutions. He is also the co-convenor of ORCA's Global Conference on New Sinology (GCNS), which is India's premier dialogue driven China conference. He is an alumnus of Ambedkar University, Delhi.