Xi calls for villagers to achieve rural vitalization

President Xi Jinping has encouraged residents of a mountainous township in Fujian province to continue their unrelenting efforts to consolidate poverty reduction outcomes and achieve rural vitalization.

Xi, who also is general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remark in a letter replying to residents of the township of Xiadang, in the province's Shouning county.

In a letter to Xi, the villagers wrote they had shaken off poverty and expressed their gratitude to the CPC Central Committee and the general secretary.