Fate also changed for Xu Haicheng. In 2017, Xi sat down with him in his rural home in Zhangbei County and helped sort out Xu's family budget.

Xu told Xi that his family of four earned over 43,000 yuan (6,269 U.S. dollars) a year growing potatoes, beets and oats but had to shell out more than 35,000 yuan for his wife's medical bills and his daughter's college expenses. After spending on daily necessities, Xu had little money left for the extras.

Xi consoled him, pledging continuous support for families like Xu's and called on cadres to help by designing more effective targeted poverty relief measures and fostering more sustainable industries.

Eliminating poverty, improving livelihoods and achieving common prosperity are the goals the Party has always been committed to, Xi said.

Jinggangshan was a base for the Party in its early revolutionary days. But the "cradle of the Chinese revolution" was also facing a tough fight against poverty when Xi visited in 2016.

Xi went to the home of Zuo Xiufa, a Red Army martyr descendant, learned that the family planned to earn extra income by making bamboo tubes and wished them good fortune.

Out on the streets, he joined locals in making sticky rice cakes. In the home of Zhang Chengde, Zhang's wife commended Xi for governing the country well so that ordinary people have a sense of fulfillment.

"The people are the masters of the country," Xi responded. "The job of all officials, myself included, is to serve the people."

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