General Secretary Xi Jinping greets local residents in Sanhe, a village in Zhaojue county, Sichuan province, on Sunday. (Photo/Xinhua）
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, paid a visit to poverty-stricken families of the Yi ethnic group living in a mountainous area in Southwest China's Sichuan province on Sunday. His unusual dressing - a white cloak – raised curiosity among netizens.[Special coverage]
The white cloak, called chaerwa in Chinese, is a hand-sewn woolen poncho-like mantle worn by people of Yi ethnic group.
