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BEIJING<\/span>, Sept. 29, 2023<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ — Falling on Friday, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been observed by people of Chinese origin for thousands of years and is usually marked by family reunions, a full-moon viewing and the consumption of mooncakes.<\/p>\n

This traditional festival has entrusted the Chinese people with their deepest nostalgia for home and their deepest attachment to their country since ancient times.<\/p>\n

Reflecting his deep affection for the country and the people, Chinese President Xi Jinping has talked about nostalgia on many occasions.<\/p>\n

From Fuping and Liangjiahe in northwest China’s<\/span> Shaanxi Province<\/span>, Zhengding in north China’s<\/span> Hebei Province<\/span>, to Fujian Province<\/span>, Zhejiang Province<\/span>, Shanghai<\/span> and Beijing<\/span>, Xi regards these places where he has worked as his “hometowns.”<\/p>\n

‘Nostalgia means you will miss a place after you leave it’<\/b><\/p>\n

During a state visit to Costa Rica<\/span> in 2013, Xi visited the home of a farming family and talked about his experience in Liangjiahe.<\/p>\n

“It is extremely rare for a president to speak so passionately and with such pride about being a farmer. Some people may downplay that aspect, but he does not. He emphasizes it,” said the Costa Rican farmer’s son.<\/p>\n

In the late 1960s, Xi left Beijing<\/span> for a village called Liangjiahe in an arid part of Shaanxi<\/span> to work as a rural laborer and spent seven years in the countryside, working and living alongside farmers.<\/p>\n

He was separated from his family, slept in cave dwellings, suffered from flea bites, and worked as hard as fellow villagers to tend crops, herd sheep, carry manure and haul coal.<\/p>\n

Before leaving Liangjiahe, Xi expressed his appreciation to the people in Liangjiahe for their selfless acceptance and assistance. “I will never forget everything Liangjiahe has given me,” he said.<\/p>\n

Whether it is at a small courtyard of a farmer’s house in Costa Rica<\/span>, on the podium in Washington State<\/span> in the U.S., or at the Global High Level Forum on Poverty Reduction and Development and the High-level Dialogue on Global Development, Xi has talked about his time in Liangjiahe.<\/p>\n

In the spring of 1982, Xi volunteered to work at the grassroots level and moved to Zhengding, a poor county in Hebei Province<\/span>.<\/p>\n

For more than three years, Xi served first as deputy secretary and then secretary of the Communist Party of China<\/span> (CPC) Zhengding County Committee and did a lot of pioneering work with the local CPC committee, planning strategies and laying a solid foundation for Zhengding’s development.<\/p>\n

Recalling his experience in Zhengding during an inspection tour in Hebei<\/span> in 2013, Xi said he grasped a direct understanding of how villagers feel through “being with comrades every day, talking, thinking and working together.”<\/p>\n

Wherever Xi goes, he brings this sincere and simple feelings to the people.<\/p>\n

“Don’t cut off true feelings because of long distances, don’t forget your true feelings because of a busy life and don’t ignore your true feelings because of the hustle and bustle of life,” Xi said at a Spring Festival gathering in 2017.<\/p>\n

‘Seeing the place where you have worked can continuously develop is when you feel the happiest’<\/b><\/p>\n

In 1988, Xi became the Party chief of Ningde Prefecture, one of the poorest regions in southeast China’s<\/span> Fujian Province<\/span> at the time. During the two years of working there, Xi visited 123 of the 124 townships, including three of the four without access to paved roads. Xiadang, a township nestled deep in the mountainous area of Shouning County, was one of them.<\/p>\n

Xi visited Xiadang three times, and personally directed poverty relief in the remote town.<\/p>\n

It took Xi about three hours by vehicle and two hours on foot along the rugged mountain paths to reach the township during his first visit.<\/p>\n

Xi decided it was essential to focus on accessibility for the area to take off. Work began on a highway just months after his first visit, and the road into Xiadang opened in January 1991<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The second visit came on July 26, 1989<\/span>, after the county was hit by its worst floods in a century. Xi sent condolences and post-disaster reconstruction funds to the people affected by the floods. He visited the township for a third time on August 7, 1996<\/span>, to investigate and direct poverty alleviation work.<\/p>\n

Thanks to poverty alleviation efforts, tremendous changes have occurred in Ningde.<\/p>\n

When inspecting Fujian<\/span> in March 2021<\/span>, Xi met several tourists from Shangrao, Jiangxi Province<\/span>, who said it took them only 22 minutes to take the train to Wuyi Mountain<\/span>, a famous summer resort in Fujian<\/span>.<\/p>\n

“Seeing the place where you have worked can continuously develop is when you feel the happiest,” he once said.<\/p>\n

Hosting a banquet to welcome guests who are gathering in Hangzhou<\/span> to attend the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games, Xi warmly recommended Zhejiang<\/span> to the guests.<\/p>\n

“I once worked in Zhejiang Province<\/span> for quite a few years. Committed to reform and opening-up, the province is now fast-tracked toward high-quality development,” Xi said, adding that it is building a demonstration zone for common prosperity, and has become a pioneer in Chinese modernization.<\/p>\n

“My job is to serve the people. It is very tiring, but also very fulfilling,” Xi said, though knowing that governing such a huge country requires a strong sense of responsibility and hard work.<\/p>\n

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