Xi also called on the two countries to increase people-to-people and cultural exchanges.
Xi Chunling, vice-president of the China Association for the Promotion of International Agricultural Cooperation, said raising pigs in healthier conditions can reduce disease and control outbreaks.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, also president of China and chairman of the Central Military Commission, arrived in Hong Kong on June 29 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, attend the inauguration ceremony of the fifth-term government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and inspect the SAR.
Xi listed six missions for Shenzhen to accomplish in higher-quality reform and opening-up in his recent speech. One of them is to do its best in advancing Greater Bay Area development. In Hong Kong, it is widely agreed by all walks of life as well as the SAR government that Hong Kong should play the lead role in that development, but not many people are willing to overcome the physical boundary separating it from the mainland or the ideological barrier keeping them in denial.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and president, and his wife, Peng Liyuan, greet Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and his wife, Ri Sol-ju, in Beijing on Tuesday. [Photo/Xinhua]
Xi is the first top Chinese leader born after 1949 when the PRC was founded.
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Wuxi has tasted the sweetness of the "floral economy" by building a world-class cherry blossom viewing site and creating a lavender park that generates an annual ticket revenue of over 25 million yuan.
Xi proposed the two sides work together to advance regional economic integration.
Xi previously visited the company in May 2010, when he was vice-president of China. Noting that the company's products have been upgraded to aerospace, rail and shipping, Xi congratulated the workers.
Xi made the remarks in a signed article published in the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera on Wednesday ahead of his European tour, with visits to Italy, Monaco and France.