Xi hails role of supply and marketing cooperatives

President Xi Jinping has urged supply and marketing cooperatives to root themselves in agriculture and rural areas, and continuously build a comprehensive platform for serving farmers' production and life and promoting the development of modern agriculture.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in an instruction on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives. A meeting commemorating the anniversary was held in Beijing on Thursday.

Xi pointed out that over the past 70 years, supply and marketing cooperatives have always centered around the central tasks of the Party and actively served the overall development of the country.