Visits reaffirm commitment to ethnic areas

From poverty reduction to rural vitalization, no group left behind in modernization drive

At the start of China's 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), President Xi Jinping made a fact-finding trip to Guizhou province, where people of ethnic minority groups account for more than 36 percent of the population and which is home to the last nine counties removed from the country's poverty list in 2020.

Xi told the residents of a village in a Miao ethnic township that all 56 ethnic groups of China are part of the big family of the Chinese nation, and no ethnic group should be left behind in the country's building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and in its drive toward modernization.

As the 14th Five-Year Plan nears completion and the country prepares for the next one, Xi once again chose Guizhou, along with Yunnan province, for his first inspection tour after the conclusion of the two sessions, the annual meetings of China's top legislative and political advisory bodies. The two provinces, both located in Southwest China, are home to diverse ethnic groups.