国内英语资讯:Xi stresses rural vitalization strategy_时事

国内英语资讯:Xi stresses rural vitalization strategy

BEIJING, Sept. 22 -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the Chinese president, has stressed the importance of rural vitalization strategy in promoting agricultural upgrading, rural progress and farmers' development in an all-round way.

Rural vitalization strategy is a major strategy put forward at the 19th CPC National Congress, and a historic task of overall importance which concerns fully building a modern socialist country, Xi said Friday while presiding over a group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on this issue.

He called for deepening the understanding of the major strategy and always making resolving issues concerning agriculture, the countryside and farmers the top priority of the Party's work.

The nation's overall modernization will be impossible without modernization of agriculture and rural areas, Xi said.

Forty years ago, it was rural reforms that raised the curtain of China's reform and opening up. Today, China should break new ground for urban-rural integration and modernization by vitalizing rural areas, he said.

It is the overall goal of rural vitalization strategy to modernize agriculture and rural areas and it is the strategy's overall principle to stick to prioritizing agriculture and rural areas, Xi said.

He called for planning and advancing the modernization of agriculture and rural areas side by side so as to turn China from a large agricultural country to a strong one.