CGTN: Yan’an Spirit to inspire rural revitalization drive
BEIJING, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Big red apples hanging on trees is a common sight in Nangou Village in the harvest season. It’s one of the villages that’s lifted itself out of poverty by cultivating apple orchards in northwest China’s Yan’an City, Shaanxi Province.
The city boasts a yearly apple output of 4 million tonnes — one ninth of the total apple output in the world’s largest developing country.
With a population of around 1,000 people, Nangou Village got rid of poverty in 2018.
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, headed directly to Nangou after getting off the train on Wednesday afternoon during his first inspection tour after the conclusion of the 20th CPC National Congr...