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