On the eve of Chinese New Year --the Year of the Goat-- Chinese President Xi Jinping accompanied by his wife visited Yan’an (Shaanxi province), the rural stronghold from where Mao Zedong pushed the Communist revolution to victory. He also visited the village of Liangjiahe, where he was "sent down" to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution and spent years as a teenager. A snippet of a video circulating online showed Xi Jiping telling a crowd that “My first step setting out in life was made in coming here...After I came, I stayed for seven years, from 1969 to 1975, and when I left, I left physically, but my heart remained behind.”
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