Xi vows to make China major global power
2 Dec 2012 5:19 AM IST
Evoking late strongman Mao Zedong's long forgotten thoughts, China's ruling CPC chief Xi Jinping has promised ‘great renewal’ of the nation to pursue the dream of becoming a major global power.
In a carefully crafted event, 59-year-old Xi along with six newly-elected members of the Standing Committee, China's highest political body which rules the country, on Thursday night visited the ‘Road toward Renewal’ exhibition featuring Chinese history since First Opium War (1840-1842), his first outing after he took over as the CPC chief earlier this month. The Opium War saw the revolt against the British rulers from India over opium trade, signifying the first resistance by the Chinese rulers against the British imperial power.
Speaking extempore, unlike the past Chinese practice of reading from prepared speeches, Xi focused much of his talk on partymen, whom he had cautioned in his previous addresses, by saying that the CPC faced the prospects of losing over six decades of power due to mounting corruption.
KIM JONG-UN GETS MAIL FROM CHINA
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on Friday received a letter from the new head of China’s Communist Party Xi Jinping, state media said. The letter, whose contents were not revealed, was delivered by a senior Chinese Communist Party delegation. Kim expressed expectations that China would ‘attain the strategic goal for building a comprehensively well-off society of socialism’ under Xi’s leadership, KCNA said.
In a carefully crafted event, 59-year-old Xi along with six newly-elected members of the Standing Committee, China's highest political body which rules the country, on Thursday night visited the ‘Road toward Renewal’ exhibition featuring Chinese history since First Opium War (1840-1842), his first outing after he took over as the CPC chief earlier this month. The Opium War saw the revolt against the British rulers from India over opium trade, signifying the first resistance by the Chinese rulers against the British imperial power.
Speaking extempore, unlike the past Chinese practice of reading from prepared speeches, Xi focused much of his talk on partymen, whom he had cautioned in his previous addresses, by saying that the CPC faced the prospects of losing over six decades of power due to mounting corruption.
KIM JONG-UN GETS MAIL FROM CHINA
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on Friday received a letter from the new head of China’s Communist Party Xi Jinping, state media said. The letter, whose contents were not revealed, was delivered by a senior Chinese Communist Party delegation. Kim expressed expectations that China would ‘attain the strategic goal for building a comprehensively well-off society of socialism’ under Xi’s leadership, KCNA said.
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