A farmer transports newly-picked tomatoes in a greenhouse at Tangwan Village of Chuanshan Town in Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 12, 2020. In recent years, the autonomous county has stressed the development of collective economies in its villages, such as rural greenhouse economy, to help improve locals' incomes. (Xinhua/Lu Boan)

BEIJING, May 20  -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the Maonan people to make persistent efforts to make their life more prosperous.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in an instruction on the poverty elimination of the entire Maonan ethnic group.