Ningde was once one of the 18 concentrated and contiguous poverty-stricken areas in China，Xijinping stayed in Ningde for one year and 11 months(September 1988 to May 1990)，He has basically traveled all over the towns. At that time, he went to three of the four townships without access roads, all of which took him a day. During this period, he not only participated in labor, but also deeply reflected on labor. In his book "Getting rid of Poverty",He once wrote: If rural labor force continues to be constrained by the original scale of arable land, relying on hoes and sickles, following the old farming tradition of thousands of years of sunrise and sunset, and engaging in slow paced and inefficient production labor, it is not a good thing. On the contrary, looking at the massive transfer of labor force from the perspective of reform and opening up, we will be pleasantly surprised to find that we have obtained an extremely valuable, exploitable, and potentially creating huge value new resource . “

On August 10, 1988, investigated the industry in Xiapu County

On August 10, 1988, investigated the industry in Xiapu County

On July 19, 1989, he went to Xiadang Village, Shouning County to investigate and hold an on-site office meeting

On December 2, 1989, Xijinping comrade,the Secretary of the Communist Party of China's Ningde District Committee led over a thousand cadres of the local government to participate in ditch cleaning, obstacle removal, and canal repair work at the Nanliao Water Conservancy Construction Site in Ningde County.

In July 1989, Xijinping went to Xiadang Township for the first time to conduct research. The group set out from Shouning County at more than 6 o'clock in the morning, took a bus to Pingxi Township at more than 9 o'clock, walked 7.5 kilometers of rugged mountain roads under the scorching sun and scorching heat, and arrived at Xiadang Township at more than 11 o'clock.