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New song ā€œLeader of the peopleā€ by the Central Propaganda Department called Xi Jinping as a ā€œhelmsmanā€.
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Mao Zedong was called ā€œA great helmsman.ā€ by the Chinese Communist Party.

(28 May)The song ā€œLeader of the peopleā€ was released by the Chinese government, promoted via a phone app, ā€œStudy the motherlandā€ and suggested that the song be sung at meetings of the National Committee of the Chinese Peopleā€™s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National Peopleā€™s Congress (NPC). The whole MTV is about Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, with picture of Xi from his youth. A songwriter stated he looked back on how tough the path for Xi Jinping leading citizens to achieve the ā€œChinese dreamā€ and how much contribution of Xi Jinping. He strongly believes Xi Jinping is a good leader.

Since the elimination of term-limits of the General Secretary in 2018, itā€™s the third song for ā€œLeader of the peopleā€. A new adjective in this song is ā€œhelmsmanā€. In the history of China, using ā€œhelmsmanā€ last time to praise the leader was in the cultural revolution. Mao Zedong described as ā€œgreat teacher, great leader, great command, great helmsmanā€, which was the ā€œfour Greatā€.

Source: Cable News China
https://bit.ly/3cLTZk5

#ChinaPropaganda #Xi #Mao #CCP
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Farmers on Chinaā€™s Poverty Alleviation: ā€˜Weā€™re Doomed to Deathā€™

//To reach President Xi Jinpingā€™s poverty alleviation goals on time, local governments destroyed farmersā€™ homes and farmland amid the coronavirus outbreak.

//The poverty alleviation policy, launched by President Xi Jinping in 2015, is aimed at lifting 70 million impoverished households in China out of poverty by 2020. Treated as a political task for CCPā€™s officials, the implementation of the presidentā€™s vanity project continued amid the ranging coronavirus pandemic.

//In late February, local government officials informed some households in a village under the jurisdiction of Heze city in the eastern province of Shandong that they would soon be relocated.

//officials came to each household, telling people that they were taking residentsā€™ temperatures to prevent the spread of the virus.

//Many refused to open their doors, afraid to be infected. But the officials insisted, explaining that they were also introducing the new relocation campaign, aimed at poverty alleviation, the goal of which is to demolish old houses and build a modern village in their place.

//When a local farmer who ran a pesticide shop refused to sign, the countyā€™s Market Supervision Administration suspended his business license on a trumped-up charge that he was selling pesticides with expired sell-by dates.

//Some elderly relocated villagers compared Xi Jinpingā€™s poverty alleviation to Mao Zedongā€™s social and economic campaigns, like the Great Leap Forward. The drive, implemented from 1958 to 1960, aimed to transform China from an agrarian economy into a communist society based on communes.

Full Article: BitterWinter, (09-Jun)

#Xi #Mao #GreatLeapForward #Farmers #Economy #PovertyAlleviation
The Famous Reporter Jonathan Mirsky, being Beaten up in the June 4 Incident, has Passed Away at Aged 88

A famous reporter Jonathan Mirsky had passed away in Britain on September 5, at the age of 88. Jonathan had been concerning about China throughout his life. He once had a live report on the June 4th incident in Tiananmen Square. He was beaten by armed police until his left arm was broken and three teeth fell out. Jonathan has worked for The Times in Hong Kong since 1993 and resigned in 1998 due to the soft attitude to China from owner Rupert Murdoch.

During the Vietnam War, like many intellectuals at the time, Jonathan Mirsky, as a scholar, actively criticised the United States. He also opposed the United States for isolating the policies of China, which he used to believe the protest of Mao was beneficial to China. In 1972, he was invited to visit China for six weeks as a Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars member. He noticed that the organiser tried to hide a few terrible situations in China. Because of this, he changed his mind from a Mao fan to a counter-revolutionary.

Source: Stand News #Sep12

https://bit.ly/3kwVxFz

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