PEKN, June 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ –55 years ago, a Xi Jinping At the age of 15, as an “educated young man”, he went to Liangjiahe village in northwest China. Shaanxi. He later spent seven years in the countryside, working and living alongside farmers.
These years helped strengthen his steadfast belief in doing practical things for the people, Xi recalled.
After being elected general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP) in November 2012, promised to continue to devote himself to serving the people. “People's desire for a happy life is our mission.”
From secretary of the rural branch of the Party to general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Xi Jinping always has the country in mind and regards himself as a servant of the people.
Man of the people
Xi arrived in Liangjiahe as a somewhat disconcerted teenager and left as a 22-year-old determined to serve the people.
Later, he moved to Zhengding, a poor county in North China Province. Hebei. Li Yaping, then head of Zhengding County, recalled that Xi said: China He had a lot to do and he needed people to take responsibility.
From his early years, Xi seemed uninterested in decorating offices. He would travel for days, sometimes into the mountains, to talk to the people at the base, learn about their difficulties and help them solve their problems.
In Zhengding, Xi rode around the county on an old bicycle and found that the state's annual grain purchase quota of 38 million kilograms had left the local population hungry.
He wrote to the CPC Central Committee, suggesting that local farmers' difficulties were due to the high supply quota. After learning of the situation, the research team reduced the quota from 38 to 24 million kilograms.
Cheng Baohuai, then secretary of the Zhengding County CPC Committee, recalled that people appreciated Xi's work, saying they finally had enough food. Xi truly rooted himself in the village and took the plight of the people to heart, Cheng said.
“For the good of my people”
Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, Xi has made more than 100 field visits to urban and rural areas.
He expressed concerns about the adequacy of holiday food markets, residents' access to health care and compensation for migrant workers. Meeting the pressing needs of the population is on the agenda of central authorities and has become the driving force for reforms.
“We now practice a people-centered development philosophy,” Xi said at a symposium on eradicating extreme poverty on June 23, 2017. “People-centered development should focus on what people need. people need it most.”
Under Xi's leadership, China It has seen historic changes, with the eradication of absolute poverty and the achievement of moderate prosperity for the country's 1.4 billion inhabitants.
The disposable income per capita of China In 2023, for example, it increased by 6.1% year-on-year, and the income gap between urban and rural residents continued to narrow. Achievements in poverty elimination have been consolidated and expanded, and per capita income in rural areas that have escaped poverty increased by 8.4 percent last year.
“China's modernization aims to ensure that development is for the people and by the people and that its fruits are shared by the people,” Xi said at a seminar in February 2023.
Asked about his feelings after being elected president of China During a visit to Italy, Xi acknowledged the enormous responsibility and arduous task of governing such a large country, but expressed his dedication to the country's development. China.
“For the sake of my people, I will put aside my own well-being,” Xi said.
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