BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged sourcing and marketing cooperatives to serve as bridges between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the government to maintain close ties with farmers and strive to write a new chapter in the high-quality development of supply and marketing. cooperative marketing cause.
President Xi, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in an instruction marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives.
The federation, founded in 1954, is a national economic organization responsible for organizing, coordinating and managing the operation of important agricultural means of production as well as agricultural and secondary products.
Over the past seven decades, the country’s supply and marketing cooperatives have played a positive role in serving rural and urban residents, boosting the rural economy, helping to eradicate absolute poverty, increasing incomes of farmers and promoting rural revitalization, Xi said.
He asked Party committees and governments at all levels to further strengthen their leadership and support for the work of supply and marketing cooperatives.
Xi urged cooperatives to build integrated platforms that serve farmers’ production and lives and help promote the development of modern agriculture.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, issued an instruction regarding supply and marketing cooperatives.
Li urged cooperatives to further promote high-quality development of agricultural supplies, distribution of agricultural products, as well as recycling and utilization of renewable resources.
A meeting was held in Beijing on Thursday to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the federation.
At the meeting, Vice Premier Liu Guozhong, also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, called on supply and marketing cooperatives to help promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas and advance overall rural revitalization.
