2024-07-17 07:22:00
[New Tang Dynasty News, Beijing time, July 17, 2024]The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is underway. The Chinese Communist Party media touted Xi Jinping as a so-called “reformer” and even promoted that he “visited Anhui in 1978 to investigate the household-based production system”, which netizens ridiculed as a “time travel”.
On July 15, the opening day of the Third Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee, Xinhua News Agency released the so-called “Blockbuster Documentary “Leading the New Journey””, praising Xi Jinping for “leading the reform and opening up.”
The documentary claims at the beginning that in 1978, while still studying at Tsinghua University, Xi Jinping accompanied his mother to “come to Chuzhou, Anhui to investigate the household responsibility system.” Later in the film, Xi Jinping’s voice appears, saying that he took a note at that time, and said, “This is the first lesson I learned regarding reform following contacting rural areas following the reform and opening up.”
Xinhua News Agency Weibo. (webpage Screenshot)
Xinhua News Agency’s documentary and related articles were quickly reprinted by major party media, but soon triggered a “big flip” in the comments. Netizens ridiculed this false propaganda and manipulated the party media to portray Xi Jinping as a “time traveler.”
According to reports from the Chinese Communist Party media, the “household quota system” in rural China originated from the bold move of 18 farmers in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang County, Chuzhou, Anhui Province at the end of 1978.
Photos published in the article “Century Moment | Xiaogang Village Implements Agricultural “Big Contract”” on the CCP’s “Communist Party Member Network” show that in December of that year, the heads of 18 farmers in Xiaogang Village signed a secret contract at Yan Lihua’s home. The content is: “We divide the fields into households, and the head of each household signs and seals them. If they can do it in the future, each household will guarantee to complete the annual handover and public grain for each household (and) not (anymore) ask for money or grain from the state. If No, our cadres are willing to go to jail and behead, and all the commune members promise to raise our children until they are eighteen years old.”
Reported by Communist Party Member Network. (webpage Screenshot)
The “Communist Party Member Network” reported that this “declaration of life and death, threatening to lose your head if you fail to achieve success” was secretly signed late at night. Villagers who participated revealed that they knew at the time that “it was definitely illegal to do this and national policy did not allow it” and “it would be over as soon as it was exposed.”
According to past reports from Xinhua News Agency, Xiaogang Village had a bumper harvest in the autumn of 1979. It was not until Xinhua News Agency released relevant reports in June 1980 that officials from across the country went to Xiaogang Village to investigate.
It can be seen that Xiaogang Village had just started to “distribute farmland to each household” at the end of 1978. At that time, the villagers were still frightened and tried their best to keep it secret. It was unlikely that Xi Jinping would “go to Anhui in 1978 to investigate the household quota system.”
According to the Xinhua News Agency’s promotional video, Xi Jinping went to “Chuzhou where Xiaogang Village is located” for investigation, not Xiaogang Village. Moreover, Xi Jinping claimed that this was his “first lesson in rural reform following the reform and opening up.” Therefore, if he did go to Chuzhou for research, it was probably following Xiaogang Village became famous in 1980.
According to party media propaganda, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which launched “reform and opening up,” was held from December 18 to December 22, 1978.
In order to tout “Xi Jinping’s leadership in reform and opening up”, the Chinese Communist Party media forcibly “advanced” the time for his investigation of Chuzhou to 1978, which attracted netizens at home and abroad to ridicule: “Everything is made up and deceived,” and “The production quota implemented back then has not yet achieved results. I came out and went to investigate.” “The Holy Spirit was present when the bloody fingerprints were pressed in Xiaogang Village, right?” “You might as well say that the big contract was personally deployed and directed by Xi Jinping.” “In the beginning, Xi Jinping created the world.”
Some netizens said: “This is another classic case of official historical falsification. It is ridiculous to force ‘great men’ into historical moments. Under a dictatorship, even history must be played according to the script…”
Amid questions from Weibo netizens, Xinhua News Agency’s official Weibo began to review and delete the comments under the blog post.
(Comprehensive reporting by reporter Zhou Guihang/Editor in charge: Lin Qing)
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