CCTV FOLLIES 5.13 XI MOUNTAIN XI SEA!

Personality cults never sleep -Xi not in the news cycle, perhaps sleeping off jet lag after taking Europe by storm, but CCTV is loathe to let a day go by without conjuring up fulsome praise of the man

Clouds, mist, mountains, sea…

Can you guess what comes next? It’s the top story of the day.

Getting that familiar tingly feeling yet?

“Xi’s inspiration from Fujian is the consistent practice of the concept of big food!”

In June 1988, Comrade Xi Jinping was transferred to the position of Secretary of the Ningde Prefectural Committee!

THINKING WHILE TRAVELING

Xi led a team to go deep into nine counties in the region, investigating, researching, and thinking while traveling.

POOR CAN BE RICH

In view of the actual situation at that time, which was dominated by agriculture, Xi believed that East Fujian was poor in "agriculture" and thus it could also be rich in "agriculture".

BIG FOOD CONCEPT: GRASPING MOUNTAINS AND SEAS TOGETHER

During his work in Fujian, General Secretary Xi Jinping took the lead in proposing and exploring the implementation of the big food concept, stabilizing food, grasping mountains and seas together, and developing agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline production, and fishery in an all-round way.

GRAIN ISN’T JUST GRAIN. GRAIN IS FOOD. GRAIN IS EVERYTHING

In the article "Taking a Path to Develop Large-Scale Agriculture," Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out that in the past, grain was only narrowly understood as rice, wheat, corn and other grass crops, but now grain is food.”

“In other words, meat, eggs, poultry, milk, fish, fruits, fungi, tea... these are all grains.”

Some examples of “grain” under Xi Jinping’s generously expanded definition: