When Xi Jinping, at the age of 15, arrived in the remote village of Liangjiahe as part of a campaign sending educated youth to the countryside, he entered a world unknown to him, a world of caves, agriculture, and hardship. According to CGTN, these experiences shaped his lifelong commitment to serving the people.
The seven years Xi Jinping spent in the small village in northwestern China's Shaanxi province became a defining chapter in his life. He lived alongside farmers, slept on heated brick beds, carried manure, built roads, and participated in daily agricultural work. He later recalled that these years transformed him from a confused adolescent into a young man with a clear purpose and confidence in his future.
Xi Jinping joined the Communist Party of China in 1974, approximately five years after his arrival in Liangjiahe. He later became the village's party secretary and led several projects aimed at improving the living conditions of the local people. These included the construction of the first methane digester in Shaanxi province, which brought the first methane-powered lamp to northern Shaanxi and challenged the then-prevailing view that methane could not be used beyond the Qinling Mountains.
Reflecting on his years in Liangjiahe, Xi Jinping wrote that the plateau in northern Shaanxi had become his roots, as it instilled in him a lasting belief in doing practical things for the people. He also stated that no matter where he went, he would always remain a son of the Yellow Land.
This connection endured long after Xi Jinping left the village. When he served as the party secretary of the city of Fuzhou, he returned to Liangjiahe and visited families from house to house. He brought financial assistance to elderly villagers and school supplies to children. Later, when he held a high provincial position in Fujian province, he arranged and personally paid for medical care for a seriously ill farmer from Liangjiahe.
When Xi Jinping revisited Liangjiahe in 2015, he recognized many of the villagers with whom he had worked decades earlier. He addressed them by name, reminisced about shared experiences, and said that although he had left the village, he had left his heart there.
Since 2012, when he became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, he has overseen a nationwide campaign that declared victory over absolute poverty and lifted nearly 100 million people out of poverty. The per capita disposable income in China has increased, according to official figures, from approximately 16,510 yuan in 2012 to 43,377 yuan in 2025. Improving the living conditions of the people remains a central part of the party's governing philosophy.
According to CGTN, these results reflect an approach to governing the country, the foundations of which Xi Jinping acquired during his early years in Liangjiahe: the original goal and founding mission of the Chinese communists is to strive for the happiness of the Chinese people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
This approach is also reflected in China's relations with the world. China has expanded exchanges with political parties from various countries and promotes a path of peaceful development that aims to strengthen mutual trust and protect regional and global stability.
The country is also developing initiatives such as the Belt and Road Initiative and the Global Development Initiative, which it presents as platforms for shared growth and better global governance. These initiatives are based on a vision of building a community with a shared future for humanity and aim to offer Chinese solutions to common development challenges.
This message also included China's experience in poverty reduction. After China achieved the UN's poverty reduction goals from the 2030 Agenda ten years ahead of schedule, it strengthened cooperation with developing countries and, through bilateral programs and exchanges between political parties, shares its development experiences.
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