Xi: Prioritize rural vitalization strategy

President says plan must ensure that farmers have greater sense of fulfillment

The rural vitalization strategy must be given priority to ensure that farmers have more sense of fulfillment, President Xi Jinping said in a key instruction released on Thursday.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, said pursuing a rural vitalization strategy is an important plan made by the Central Committee at the Party's 19th National Congress.