BEIJING: Torrential rain and floods killed four people and spurred the evacuation of thousands from homes in China’s southern province of Hunan, lashed by record rainfall from the remnants of Typhoon Gaemi, state media said on Tuesday (Jul 30). Days of heavy rain have breached major dikes and dams, floodingContinue Reading
BEIJING: Record rainfall and widespread flooding killed four people in China’s southern province of Hunan, with roads in rural areas damaged and access to electricity and the internet disrupted, state media said on Tuesday (Jul 30). Days of heavy rains from the remnants of Typhoon Gaemi have breached major dikesContinue Reading
Hailing Xi as a” leader, scholar and strategist”, Xinhua said he had “always shouldered the heavy tasks of transformation” and “personally reviewed and revised all big ideas”.
He was also referred to as “another excellent activist in the country after Deng Xiaoping,” and it noted that the two most important officials “each faced remarkably different historical situation.”
While Xi had taken control when the nation was already the second-largest economy in the world, Deng had to build up a poverty-stricken China from scrape. However, many of the benefits that had helped it grow quickly, for as low labor, were now starting to fade.
” Instead of resting on the achievements of his successors, Xi was committed to carrying on reform, even though he knew how hard it had be”, Xinhua said, adding that he had played a role in all China’s big changes throughout his career.
According to another Xinhua content, Xi has presided over 72 conferences since taking office in 2013 and has oversaw all reform initiatives since.
The standard communication, according to Xie Maosong, a senior scholar at the National Institute of Strategic Studies at Tsinghua University, plainly indicated that Xi would not be deflected from his chosen path and do institutionalize his model of reform to maintain it becomes” a major political legacy.”
Former deputy editor of Study Times, the official newspaper of the Central Party School, Deng Yuwen, warned that the party must keep an eye on public sentiment as the dissatisfaction with the weak economy grew.
According to a recent survey conducted by US-based Big Data China,” Chinese people today tend to blame unequal opportunities and an unfair system for their poor economic status” ( he said ).
The general public desires more upward mobility, fairer job opportunities, and fundamental things like food safety. The party must demonstrate their ability to accomplish these objectives.
This article first appeared in SCMP.  ,
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