BEIJING -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has stressed the importance of rural vitalization strategy in promoting agricultural upgrading, rural progress and farmers' development in an all-round way.

Rural vitalization strategy is a major strategy put forward at the 19th CPC National Congress, and a historic task of overall importance which concerns fully building a modern socialist country, Xi said Friday while presiding over a group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on this issue.

He called for deepening the understanding of the major strategy and always making resolving issues concerning agriculture, the countryside and farmers the top priority of the Party's work.