After Toiling in Rural China, a Protégé of Xi Jinping Joins Party’s Top Tiers

After Toiling in Rural China, a Protégé of Xi Jinping Joins Party’s Top Tiers
Tao Yongpan said that In recent years earnings from farming were low, everyone let land go fallow,
Among the other Chinese officials expected to be promoted this autumn are Cai Qi, the party secretary of Beijing; Chen Quanguo, the secretary of Xinjiang, a tense region in the west;
and perhaps Hu Chunhua, the secretary of Guangdong Province in the south, who was singled out for praise by Mr. Xi in April.
" he said. that There is wide recognition that inequality is rising,
and improving living standards in rural areas is one way to show the Chinese Communist Party is trying to narrow the gap,
Qiu Shuixian said that It’s a good way forward for us,
Mr. Xi started his career as an official in a rural commune under Mao
and spent three years as a deputy party chief in a rural county in northern China.
And in between, he spent five and a half years governing the 36 million people of Guizhou,
including most recently two years as party secretary, the most powerful job in a province.