Here are the stories and pieces that I found noteworthy from the Thursday, January 19, 2023, edition of the People’s Daily. Page 1: There are just two stories on the page today. The main article is about Xi Jinping’s video chat with the general public from across the country ahead of the Spring Festival. So there was no new year inspection tour, but a video chat instead. Xi actually addressed this in his comments, saying that usually this time of the year he would be to the grassroots level. But this year the video system was chosen so that he could “see more places, east, west, north and south.”