国内英语资讯:Xi Focus: Who does Xi visit ahead of Chinese New Year_时事

国内英语资讯:Xi Focus: Who does Xi visit ahead of Chinese New Year

In 2017, he returned to the village of Liangjiahe in Shaanxi Province, where he spent seven years in his youth living and working alongside peasants.

In 2017, he braved the ice and snow to visit families living on pastures and forest farms in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

In 2013, he visited poor villages in remote and barren mountains of Gansu Province.

DIFFERENT FAMILIES, SAME GOAL

Jihaoyeqiu's house was perched on a hill in mountainous Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, one of China's last pockets of deep poverty.

In 2018, Xi visited Jihaoyeqiu's ramshackle home. He checked the family's living conditions and asked whether they had enough to eat and wear. In a later conversation, one of Jihaoyeqiu's fellow ethnic Yi villagers said she used to believe that she was haunted by ghosts as she often fell sick.

Xi said in the past there were "ghosts" of poverty and backwardness. But as people gain more knowledge, attend to personal hygiene and live higher-quality lives, these "ghosts" are being banished.

"Our socialism aims to create good lives for the people," Xi said.

He is determined to eradicate absolute poverty which has haunted the nation for thousands of years. In 2013, he put forward "targeted poverty alleviation," and a goal was later set to eliminate extreme poverty by 2020.

Over 10 million Chinese people shook off poverty every year since 2013. Jihaoyeqiu is one of them as his family moved into a 100-sq-meter four-bedroom home in a new relocation village out of the inhospitable area.