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Xi stresses high-quality growth

CHINADAILY · 公众号 · 时评 · 2025-03-19 11:58

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President Xi Jinping has called on Guizhou province to promote high-quality development and drive growth by further deepening reform and opening-up comprehensively, saying that the southwestern province should firm up confidence, work hard and take steady steps to advance Chinese modernization.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks as he wrapped up on Tuesday a two-day inspection of the province.

The visit, which came less than a week after the conclusion of the annual sessions of the country's top legislature and national political advisory body, was Xi's third trip to Guizhou since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012.

▲ President Xi Jinping is greeted by people of the Dong ethnic group on Monday during his visit to a village in the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture in Southwest China’s Guizhou province. Xi was on an inspection tour of Guizhou on Monday and Tuesday. Xie Huanchi/Xinhua

It took him to a Dong ethnic village in the province's Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture on Monday.

Guizhou is home to diverse ethnic groups and cultures, with people of ethnic minority groups accounting for more than 36 percent of its total population. Eighteen ethnic groups such as Han, Miao, Bouyei, Dong and Tujia have lived there since ancient times.

In Zhaoxing Dong village, Xi watched a performance of the grand song of the Dong ethnic group, a form of folk chorus inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list, visited a Dong culture exhibition center and inspected a local base of special industry featuring weaving, dyeing and embroidery.

"Stilt houses, ancient villages, intangible cultural heritage instruments, the grand song of the Dong people and batik craftsmanship all embody the unique charm of this ethnic culture — both deeply traditional and remarkably stylish," Xi said.

He expressed the hope that with the support of the Party and the government, the villagers will live better lives, further advance rural vitalization, and contribute to the progress of Chinese modernization.

When sitting around a firepit with villagers at a drum tower, a unique architecture of the Dong ethnic group that serves as a communal gathering spot, Xi said that areas with large ethnic minority populations should preserve their distinctive culture and let it shine through the integrated development of culture and tourism.

Tourism has become a major industry and rural tourism is thriving, Xi said, expressing the hope that the villagers would enjoy greater prosperity with each passing day.