Xi tour highlights modern farmland role to boost China’s food security


Chinese President Xi Jinping has toured a village in the southwestern province of Sichuan to emphasise the need to strengthen grain production and increase the size of modern farms.

State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of Xi walking through green fields and inspecting the harvest with grains in his hand during his visit on Wednesday to the village of Yongfeng, part of Meishan city, as he urged local officials to boost production.

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