Why, though, did Xi decide to devote his life to the party that had ripped apart his family and plunged it into suffering? He had all the reason in the world to hate the party. That same year, Xi became party secretary of Liangjiahe, the first rung of the career ladder for the future politician. He had to apply for membership 10 times before he was finally accepted, with party officials hesitating to take on the son of an outcast. On the wall hangs a framed copy of the certificate documenting his admission to the party, dated January 10, 1974. In one of the caves where Xi lived back then, a party delegation from Tibet is marveling at the collection of books that he allegedly read: Marx and Engels, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Sun Tzu. In the village, gardeners are growing eggplants and chilis and the zinnias are blooming. A mural shows Xi giving instructions to the farmers. To shelter from the August sun, a group of schoolchildren has sat down in the shade of the village sports field as the teacher says: "Did you already know how much Xi Jinping loves to read? He arrived here with a box full of books." In the small blacksmith’s shop that Xi allegedly helped set up, a man is making soup ladles as souvenirs for the tourists. It has since been developed into a kind of open-air museum, with former village residents having been relocated to newly constructed residential buildings down in the valley. Like millions of other youth, Xi Jinping was banished to the countryside to learn from the farmers – which is how he ended up in Liangjiahe, the village with the cave dwellings. A half-sister to Xi Jinping lost her life, likely through suicide. There is no organized political opposition in the country against which he must prove or measure himself. At the wave of a finger, huge metropolises with millions of residents are placed under lockdown, and to implement his zero-COVID policy, the citizens of China are under near total surveillance. Xi exerts control over the most soldiers and the largest navy in the world. He rules over 1.4 billion people and an economy that will likely soon exceed that of the United States. As head of state, general secretary of the Communist Party and commander-in-chief of the country’s military, Xi occupies all three of the most important offices in the country. Xi Jinping is the most powerful man in the world and the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. During the 2022 Winter Olympics, the propagandists at the People’s Daily managed to begin each of the 12 headlines on the frontpage with the same three characters: "Xi," "Jin" and "Ping." When he opens up the newspaper in the morning, it’s usually his own name that he finds himself reading. SPIEGEL Media Menü SPIEGEL Media aufklappen.Alle Magazine Menü Alle Magazine aufklappen.SPIEGEL-Heft Menü SPIEGEL-Heft aufklappen.Gutscheine Anzeige Menü Gutscheine aufklappen.Marktplatz Anzeige Menü Marktplatz aufklappen.Partner-Inhalte Anzeige Menü Partner-Inhalte aufklappen.Wissenschaft Menü Wissenschaft aufklappen.Formel 1 – Liveticker, Kalender, WM-Stand.
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