BEIJING, June 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty-five years
ago, a 15-year-old Xi Jinping, as an "educated youth," went to
Liangjiahe Village in northwest China's Shaanxi
Province. He later spent seven years in the countryside,
working and living alongside farmers.
Those years helped foster his unchanging belief in doing
practical things for the people, Xi recalled.
After being elected general secretary of the Communist Party of
China (CPC) Central Committee in
November 2012, he pledged his
continuous dedication to serving the people. "The people's wish for
a happy life is our mission."
From a rural Party branch secretary to the general secretary of
the CPC Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the
Central Military Commission, Xi Jinping always has the country in
mind and sees himself as the people's servant.
Man of the people
Xi arrived in Liangjiahe as a slightly bewildered teenager and
left as a 22-year-old man determined to serve the people.
He later went to Zhengding, a poor county in north China's Hebei
Province. Li Yaping, then a Zhengding County official,
recalled that Xi said China had
many things waiting to be done and needed some people to shoulder
responsibility.
From his early years, Xi seemed uninterested in the trappings of
offices. He would travel for days, sometimes into the mountains, to
talk with people at the grassroots, learn about their difficulties,
and help solve their problems.
In Zhengding, Xi rode an old bicycle all over the county and
noticed that the annual grain procurement quota of 38 million
kilograms by the state had left local people hungry.
He wrote to the CPC Central Committee, suggesting local farmers'
difficulties were caused by the high procurement quota. After the
investigation team learned about the situation, they reduced the
quota from 38 million kilograms to 24 million kilograms.
Cheng Baohuai, then secretary of Zhengding County CPC Committee,
recalled that people appreciated Xi's work, saying they finally had
enough food. Xi really rooted himself in the people and took to
heart the hardships of the people, Cheng said.
'For the good of my people'
Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, Xi has made over
100 visits at the grassroots level, including to both urban and
rural areas.
He voiced concerns about the food markets' holiday supply
sufficiency, residents' access to medical care and migrant workers'
pay. Addressing people's pressing needs is on the agenda of the
central authorities and has become the driving force behind
reforms.
"We are now practicing a people-centered development
philosophy," Xi said during a symposium on eradicating extreme
poverty on June 23, 2017.
"People-centered development must focus on what the people need
most."
Under Xi's leadership, China
has witnessed historic changes, with absolute poverty wiped out and
moderate prosperity attained for the country's 1.4 billion
people.
China's per capita disposable
income in 2023, for instance, increased by 6.1 percent year on
year, and the income gap between urban and rural residents
continued to narrow. The gains of poverty elimination were
consolidated and expanded, with per capita income in rural areas
that have been lifted out of poverty growing by 8.4 percent last
year.
"Chinese 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 on being elected president of
China during a visit to
Italy, Xi acknowledged the huge
responsibility and arduous task to govern such a big country, but
expressed his devotion to China's
development.
"For the good of my people, I will put aside my own well-being,"
Xi said.
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