President Xi Jinping said he wants to end poverty in old revolutionary base areas and improve local people's standard of living.

Xi made the remarks on Feb 13 during a tour of Shaanxi province as he extended Spring Festival greetings to local people.

"A well-off society will be incomplete if people in the old guerrilla base areas cannot shake off poverty," Xi said during a meeting with Party chiefs of 24 counties and cities from Shaanxi and Gansu provinces and the Ningxia Hui autonomous region.