Xi said China will actively participate in the building of global governance system and strive to contribute Chinese wisdom to the improvement of global governance.
Yuan Longping, a Chinese agriculturalist, was born in Qianyang, Hunan province in 1930. Professor Yuan graduated from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953 and has since devoted himself to agricultural education and research.
The Red Army started the Long March in October 1934 and finished in 1936.
The CPC has a long history of sending officials abroad to learn from foreign expertise, and the latest move is designed to boost the economies of the country's two poorest provinces.