Xi Jinping's dedication to service

PKIN, June 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Fifty-five years ago, Xi Jinping, then 15, visited Liangjiahe Village in China's Shaanxiin northwest China, as an educated youth. He then spent seven years in the countryside, working and living alongside farmers.

These years helped strengthen his unwavering belief in doing practical things for the people, the Chinese president recalled.

After being elected general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in November 2012, he pledged to continue serving the people. People's wish to have a happy life is our mission.

From rural section secretary of the party to general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, to president of China and chairman of the Central Military Commission, Xi Jinping has always kept his country in mind and considers himself a servant of the people.

Man of the people

When he arrived in Liangjiahe, Xi Jinping was just a slightly lost teenager and he came back a young man of 22 determined to serve the people.

He then went to Zhengding, a poor county in China Province. Hebeiin northern China. Li Yaping, then a Zhengding county official, remembers Xi saying that China had a lot of things to do and needed people to take responsibility.

From his early years, Xi Jinping did not seem interested in the trappings of office. He could travel for days, sometimes into the mountains, to talk with the people at the base, learn their difficulties and help them solve their problems.

Zhengding, Xi rode around the county on an old bicycle and noticed 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 large purchasing quotas. After learning the situation, the investigation team reduced the quota from 38 million kilograms to 24 million kilograms.

Cheng Baohuai, then secretary of the CPC Zhengding County committee, recalled that people appreciated Mr. Xi's work, saying that they finally had enough to eat. Mr. Xi truly rooted himself in the people and took to heart the difficulties of the people, said Mr. Cheng.

For the sake of my people:

Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, Xi Jinping has made more than 100 local visits, including to urban and rural areas.

He was concerned about the sufficient supply of food markets during the holidays, residents' access to medical care and the remuneration of migrant workers. Meeting the urgent needs of the population is the agenda of central authorities and has become the driving force behind reforms.

We now practice a philosophy of people-centered development, Xi Jinping said at a symposium on eradicating extreme poverty on June 23, 2017. People-centered development must focus on what the people need. most needed.

Under Mr. Xi's leadership, China has experienced historic changes, with the eradication of absolute poverty and the achievement of moderate prosperity for the country's 1.4 billion people.

China's per capita disposable income in 2023, for example, increased by 6.1% year-on-year, and the income gap between urban and rural residents continued to narrow. Progress in eliminating poverty has been consolidated and expanded, with per capita income in rural areas that have moved out of poverty increasing 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 Jinping said at a seminar in February 2023.

Asked about his feelings about being elected president of China during a visit to Italy, the Chinese president acknowledged the enormous responsibility and arduous task of governing such a large country, but he expressed his dedication to China's development.

For the sake of my people, I will put aside my own well-being, Xi Jinping said.

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