The city of Lingbao in Sanmenxia was listed as a demonstration city for China's highlighted "rural revitalization strategy", according to reports from Sanmenxia Daily on July 7.
The rural revitalization strategy is a national strategy to promote rural development. It was announced at the 19th CPC National Congress on October 18, 2017. Six towns in Sanmenxia were selected as rural revitalization demonstration towns.
The demonstration towns and cities have been chosen to play a better role, and drive the implementation of the strategy of rural revitalization. With a better foundation of socioeconomic development, the selected towns and cities are highly developed in urbanization, environmental construction and rural governance. Eighteen counties and 162 towns in Henan province were given the glorious title.