Xi Jinping has become China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. NPR has been speaking with a range of Chinese people about the impact he has had. Here's what 4 of them said.
But the sweeping crackdown was clear indication that Xi was a different kind of leader.Few outside the party's secretive elite know exactly how or why Xi was installed as party boss a decade ago.
He goes by the name Vis. He did not want to use his full name to avoid trouble from the authorities for speaking freely to a journalist."We were locked in for four months in total. It was the longest [lockdown] in Shanghai," he says. But it comes with a cost. The impact on the economy has been huge, with heightened uncertainty smothering consumer confidence and rendering business planning all but impossible."We were helpless and also felt like crying," says Vis, talking about the last lockdown.
The lockdown started in early spring. Since it was lifted in June, Vis has pieced his yoga business back together for the most part. But he says it left a scar on everyone. Zhang believes Xi understands the plight of the country's poor because of his experience in the Cultural Revolution, and has been able to take action that his predecessors could not because he is what is known as a"princeling" — the child of revolutionaries. Xi's father, Xi Zhongxun, was a guerrilla fighter in the civil war and later a vice premier.
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