BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on Chinese youth to dedicate themselves to the country's modernization drive by serving where the nation needs them the most.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the call in a reply letter to a group of volunteer teachers working in a remote border school in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

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