Wang Yang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, talks with villagers at a Hezhe ethnic village in Fuyuan city during an inspection tour in northeastern Heilongjiang province, June 8, 2021. Wang and 13 non-CPC members of the CPPCC National Committee inspected Heilongjiang from June 6 to 9. Wang stressed the importance of developing border areas and improving local people's lives during the inspection tour. [Xinhua/Yao Dawei] 

HARBIN -- Wang Yang, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, has stressed the importance of developing border areas and improving local people's lives during an inspection tour in northeastern Heilongjiang province. 

Border areas are very important for promoting foreign exchanges and ethnic unity and progress, said Wang, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee. 

Wang urged efforts to comprehensively improve the quality and standard of border area development and the living conditions of people from all ethnic groups. 

He also called for efforts to ensure no border areas and ethnic groups are left behind as the country embarks on a new journey to fully build a modern socialist China. 

Wang and 13 non-CPC members of the CPPCC National Committee inspected Heilongjiang from June 6 to 9. 

The team learned about the economic and social development in border areas in Heilongjiang and visited villages and people of ethnic minorities. They also held a symposium in the provincial capital Harbin.

Wang Yang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, visits a cross-border e-commerce industrial park in Heihe city during an inspection tour in northeastern Heilongjiang province, June 8, 2021. Wang and 13 non-CPC members of the CPPCC National Committee inspected Heilongjiang from June 6 to 9. Wang stressed the importance of developing border areas and improving local people's lives during the inspection tour. [Xinhua/Yao Dawei]