CGTN: Xi Jinping's inspection in Guizhou accentuates China's commitment to high-quality development
CGTN published an article on Chinese President Xi Jinping's latest inspection tour to southwestChina'sGuizhou Province. By introducing howGuizhoustrives for high-quality economic growth and rural revitalization, the article showedChina'sunwavering determination to pursue high-quality development, which is key to its modernization drive.
BEIJING,March 19, 2025/PRNewswire/ -- At this year's Two Sessions –China'sannual legislative and political consultative sessions – high-quality development is a buzzword.
The first local inspection tour made by Chinese President Xi Jinping after the Two Sessions has again revealed the country's unwavering determination to pursue high-quality development, which is key to its modernization drive.
From Monday to Tuesday, Xi visited southwestChina'sGuizhou, calling on the province to adhere to high-quality development and drive growth by further deepening reform and opening up comprehensively.
High-quality development in Chinese modernization
During the tour, Xi pointed out high-quality development is an essential requirement for advancing Chinese modernization, urgingGuizhouto pursue high-quality development by strengthening its economy, driving innovation, and transforming traditional industries, while also protecting its ecological environment.
Once considered the"poorest"province,Guizhouhas made remarkable progress, alleviating over 9.2 million people from poverty within a decade by 2021. In 2024,Guizhou'sGDP reached2.27 trillion yuan($311.6 billion), growing by 5.3 percent compared to the previous year, higher than the national average growth rate of 5 percent.
Often dubbedChina'sbig-data hub,Guizhouis the country's first national big-data comprehensive pilot zone, promoting big-data industry as the backbone of its high-quality social and economic development. Currently, 47 major data centers are either under construction or operational across this province.
Through relentless efforts in ecological conservation, the province – home to the largest area of rocky desertification inChina– saw its forest coverage rise to 63 percent by the end of 2023, with 99.1 percent of days inGuizhou'smajor cities meeting excellent air quality standards in 2024.
Culture confidence
StressingGuizhouis rich in historical, red culture and ethnic culture, Xi called on the province to preserve the traditional culture, enhance cultural confidence to boost economic and social development.
When visiting the Zhaoxing Dong Village in Liping County on Monday, Xi and the villagers sat around a fire pit to discuss all-around rural revitalization at a drum tower, a unique architecture for the Dong ethnic group that serves as a communal gathering spot.
Xi stressed 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, wishing the villagers'lives to continuously prosper with each passing day.
In recent years, Zhaoxing Dong Village has vigorously developed the tourism industry by setting up more than 400 hotels, homestay hotels and restaurants, fostering more than 60 traditional handicraft enterprises and generating employment and entrepreneurship for more than 2,000 people.
Last year, the village received 1.027 million visitors, an increase of 63.4 percent, with tourism revenue reaching1.02 billion yuan, an increase of 63.8 percent. The village's collective economic income reached2.45 million yuan, while the villagers'per capita disposable income rose to about41,600 yuan, up by 12.3 percent.
SOURCE CGTN
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