People forget about Xi's youth when trying to judge his positions and ideology or if he is a TRUE COMMUNIST or whatever. No matter if he can keep things going in the right direction in China he has done more mass work with poor communities than probably this entire site combined

Man was ordered to go to some small rural villages in the middle of nowhere in 1969, when he was 15, as part of Mao Zedong’s “Up to the Mountain and Down to the Countryside Movement”, which saw educated city youth deployed to rural areas to do party work and he spent seven years hauling grain, helping with everyday issues in the villages, sleeping in cave homes on flea-bitten brick beds and taking notes every day implementing the mass line. He was cycling every other day over the hills or rural china with a shitty ass bike and his notes to attent all the villages he was asigned to do work in. He was later among the ones rewarded for how well he did ,how much he helped the village and how well he implemented the mass line while tons of teens were just dissillusioned with communism and being one with the people and were just lying in their reports and doing nothing.

I once stated that a County Party Secretary should visit all the villages in the county, a municipal or Prefectural Party Secretary should visit all the districts and townships in the city, and a Provincial Party Secretary should visit all the counties and cities in the province. I did . When I served in Zhengding, I visited all the villages under Zhengding by bike. And when I served as Party Secretary of Fuzhou and Ningde, I traveled to all townships under them. At that time, although there were four towns in Ningde with no access to road transportation, I visited three among them. There was a town named Xiadang, which for me to get to I had to cut my way through brambles and thistles and travel over mountains and rivers. The Party Secretary of the town led the way for us and cut weeds in our way with a chopper. He said this way was the nearest one, along the river. The civilians welcomed us with barrels of cold drinks made of local herbs

When I was Party Secretary of Zhejiang Province, I put forward the strategy of “making full use of eight advantages and implementing eight major measures” for the development of Zhejiang after visiting all the counties, cities, and districts in the province. What does that mean? That means we must have a thorough understanding of the situation and grasp first-hand information. Do not merely wait for someone to collect information for you. We are not infants who need to be fed by others. Nowadays, the means to understand a situation are becoming more and more diversified, including telephone, Weibo, and WeChat. They are all very effective. Thus, we have a better approach to mass work.

Attitude and emotion support us in performing mass work, and ways and methods are the key to success. If one uses the wrong method, one will obtain a negative result despite a positive attitude. “Cannot cheat” shows that an official should be willing to get his hands dirty and be mindful of the slightest detail as well as advocate openness, fairness, and justice to the greatest extent possible.... ....I was inquiring after the villagers’ living conditions, felt the thickness of their quilts by touch and learned about their dietary conditions. This was the state of “cannot cheat”. When i lived and worked in the rural area of northern Shaanxi Province, i performed all types of hard labor and bore all sorts of hardships—farming, hauling a coal cart, building dykes, and carrying manure. Organizing projects like reinforcing the riverbank to prevent erosion, organizing a cooperative of blacksmiths to make farming tools, and building a methane tank for gathering cooking gas. While working in Zhengding, i tried to rectify the financial problems in the rural area and cracked down heavily on economic crimes. At one point, i and other senior officials in Fuzhou met with more than 700 petitioners in 2 days and solved many of their problems on the spot or set a time limit to find solutions. When i was heading the administration of Zhejiang Province, we attached importance to pollution prevention and controls to ensure environmental safety. This is the so-called “dare not to cheat"