Longing for his home comforts, he escaped. “Many ideas and characteristics of mine were formed ,” Xi told a television programme in 2004.īut the misery of life in the impoverished village of a few dozen houses was too much for the 15-year-old Xi. Xi Jinping has said that he experienced his political awakening when he was “sent down” to Liangjiahe in Shaanxi province, as part of a campaign by Mao Tse-tung to force the educated urban youth to experience peasant life. They have reason to reflect on those days all the more now – and profit from others’ interest in their little village – now that the young man sent from Beijing for seven years of hard labour is their president. ![]() Villagers in Liangjiahe in northern China can still remember the years when a tall, pale teenager worked with them in the fields and slept on a straw mat in a flea-infested cave.
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