Stories of Xi Jinping

In December 2012, Xi Jinping visited Guangdong in his first inspection trip outside Beijing, after he was elected general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, sending a clear message that China will continue to push forward reform and opening-up.

In the next tens years and more, China rolled out more than 2,000 reform plans under Xi’s leadership, many of them directly related to people’s livelihood.

In July, 2024, China reiterated its determination on all-round reform and high-standard opening up, as the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China adopted a resolution to further deepen reform comprehensively to advance Chinese modernization.

In this bonus episode, we will hear stories of how Xi Jinping has been leading China's reform and opening-up.

Over the decades during which Xi Jinping worked at various levels of the government across China, he has always made plans for the present with the future in mind. In this episode, we will hear stories about Xi’s strategic thinking in economic and social development, and how the plans were carried through to completion.

Every step in China’s fight against COVID-19 in the past three years was a test on the wisdom and courage of Xi Jinping, the top policymaker of a country of over 1.4 billion people. But this was not the first time for Xi Jinping to lead a fight against a pandemic. In this episode, there will be details regarding Xi’s decisiveness in policy-making in the face of epidemic outbreaks.

By the end of 2020, China had lifted all of its nearly 99 million impoverished rural residents out of absolute poverty, winning the fight on schedule. The last mile is always the hardest. Lifting huge population out of absolute poverty has been a great testament to Xi Jinping’s capability in solving real-world issues. In this episode, we will hear stories about how Xi Jinping tackled one problem after another to lead the Chinese people out of poverty.

As China pursues its own model of modernization, Xi Jinping says China will give priority to environmental protection and promote green lifestyles, to ensure sustainable development and create a better future for all. In this episode, we will explore how Xi Jinping plans and actualizes the building of harmony between humanity and nature and how his thoughts regarding “Ecological Civilization” gradually came into form.

While working at different localities, Xi Jinping travelled extensively to conduct in-depth research and field studies, to better understand people’s actual living conditions at the grassroots level and formulate the best solutions to solve their problems. In this episode, we will follow Xi Jinping’s footsteps in conducting field research and find out how he has lived up to the trust and expectations of the people.

As the Chinese economy upgrades from rapid expansion to high-quality development, Xi Jinping says innovation will remain at the heart of China’s modernization drive. Xi has long been concerned with “bottlenecks” in core technology in key fields, encouraged basic research for self-reliance in science and technology, and has also valued talent as the primary resource of growth. In this episode, we will explore Xi’s firm belief in the power of innovation, and how he has brought together strength for China to achieve greater self-reliance in science and technology.

Under Xi Jinping’s leadership, China has decided on the strategy of strengthening the country through cultivating talent, as Xi believes talent is the key in promoting economic and social development. In this episode, we will get to know Xi Jinping’s philosophy regarding talent and how much he treasures talented people in China’s development.

Looking at Xi Jinping’s decades-long political career, working with different interest groups and diverse ways of thinking has always been part of his job. Over the years, he has shown mastery in communicating and coordinating with various political parties, social organizations, ethnic groups, and people from all walks of life. In this episode, we will explore how Xi Jinping has ensured effective communication with all parties concerned, to form a concerted effort in realizing the Chinese Dream.

Over the course of several decades, Xi Jinping has gone from a young local official to China’s top leader, but his devotion to the people has never changed. For Xi, “putting the people first” means actions to be taken. In this episode, we will get an idea of how Xi Jinping won people’s trust and respect, which turned into greater strength in uniting the Chinese people to strive forward.