The Central Committee of the Communist Party approved Xi Jinping’s third term in office on Sunday in Beijing. Comparisons with Mao Zedong are being invoked more and more frequently. Who Was the Man Who Created Communist China?
For four months, Mao Zedong explored his country, from the south up to the steppes of Manchuria, down the Yangtze on a steamer, it was a journey back and forth through the Middle Kingdom in the ninth year of the Red rule. He visits model communities, appraises selected irrigation projects, and the 64-year-old feels the revolutionary élan of his youth again. The passionate swimmer even dares to swim twice in the winter-cold waters of the Yong River in the south of the country.