President Xi visits Guangxi

Beijing, The Gulf Observer: Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to free its mind, make innovation, promote the marine economy, and further opening up and development during an inspection tour to the southern Chinese region, according to the Xinhua.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, urged the coastal region to write its chapter in advancing Chinese modernization.

On Wednesday, Xi returned to China after a state visit to Vietnam. On Thursday and Friday, he went to places including Nanning, capital city of the region, and Laibin City.

While visiting a sugarcane base in Laibin on Thursday, he noted that Guangxi, the country’s major sucrose production base, should further develop its characteristic sugar industry so as to play a bigger role in ensuring national sugar security and increasing sugarcane farmers’ income.

China’s sugar industry faces fierce international competition, Xi said while visiting a local sugar company, calling for efforts in boosting sci-tech innovation, extending the industrial chain and increasing added value to promote the high-quality development of the industry.

To promote high-quality development in Guangxi, it is necessary to accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, Xi noted, urging efforts to focus on advantageous industries and integrate advantageous resources, and create a number of pillar industries with larger scale and stronger driving force that demonstrate the region’s characteristics.

He called for putting sci-tech innovation in a more prominent position, strengthening the integration of scientific and educational innovation and industrial innovation, enhancing the research on core technologies, and increasing technological transformation and product upgrading.

Xi also called on Guangxi to make full use of the advantages along the coast and rivers to vigorously develop the marine economy and port industries.

Efforts must be made to accelerate the optimization and adjustment of the industrial structure, promote the green transformation of the industrial system, develop and expand industries such as forestry, cultural tourism and elderly care, so as to transform ecological advantages into development advantages, he said.