Xi urges energizing rural areas

Food security must be ensured, president says

President Xi Jinping highlighted the importance of revitalizing the country's rural areas during the top legislature's ongoing annual session in Beijing on Thursday.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, attended a panel discussion with deputies to the National People's Congress from Shandong province at the Great Hall of the People.

The strategy of revitalizing rural areas is a significant decision made at the CPC's 19th National Congress and a great historical task to secure the decisive victory of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, Xi said.

The quality of a moderately welloff society and socialist modernization is decided by whether rural areas are strong, beautiful and rich, Xi said, adding that the importance of rural revitalization strategy must be highlighted.