President Xi Jinping's important speech on rural revitalization has boosted the confidence of the deputies to the National People's Congress and encouraged them to engage in the revitalizing agenda.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said on Thursday that the rural revitalization strategy is the leading agenda for government work on agriculture, rural areas and rural residents.

Local authorities should have a profound understanding of the strategy's importance and necessity and implement it earnestly, Xi said as he joined a panel discussion with lawmakers from Shandong province at the top legislature's annual session.