During his seven years living and working in Liangjiahe Village, Xi Jinping kept looking for ways to improve the villagers’ lives. He built a dam to provide irrigation water and succeeded in building the first methane tank in Shaanxi Province.

Before he moved on to study in Tsinghua University, Xi Jinping, with thorough understanding about government policy at the time, promoted businesses to enrich the villager’s lives.

This episode details the challenges that Xi Jinping, then a 15-year-old teenager from Beijing, had to overcome while trying to adjust to life in Liangjiahe Village. Food, climate and even language became hurdles for the young lad to jump through.

While living and working at Liangjiahe Village in his teenage years and early adulthood, Xi Jinping worked hard both at the local construction projects and at gaining knowledge, experience and wisdom. After a few years, he became a proper farmer at home with his environment and a leader that people wanted to follow.

Xi Jinping visits his old friends, and together they reminisce on how he adjusted to the food, culture, and life in general in Liangjiahe Village. After more than 40 years, their friendship has endured even after Xi had left the village.

This episode details the challenges that Xi Jinping, then a 15-year-old teenager from Beijing, had to overcome while trying to adjust to life in Liangjiahe Village. Food, climate and even language became hurdles for the young lad to jump through.

Xi Jinping meets his old friends in Liangjiahe Village, and revisits his old home in a cave house and a dam that he helped to build. As a young man, Xi spent seven years here, living and working side by side with the fellow villagers whom he has missed for 40 years.

Since 1969, Chinese President Xi Jinping had lived and worked in Liangjiahe Village for more than seven years. In 2015 after being away for 40 years, Xi came back to the village. He recognized the fellow villagers and greeted them warmly as if he never left.

​"Thanks to our efforts in the past few years, a general framework of cooperation has been put in place. It is like completing a drawing: The outline has been sketched; now we must fill in the fine details. And we need to do so with meticulous care."

"The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a major and transparent initiative with which China shares opportunities and pursues common development with the rest of the world."

"We should continue to advance the Belt and Road cooperation under the principle of delivering shared benefits through extensive consultation and joint contribution."

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"This country is its people; the people are the country."

"At the fundamental level, the capability of our Party and the strengths of socialism with Chinese characteristics are attributable to the fact that Marxism works."

"To realize national rejuvenation, the Party united and led the Chinese people in freeing the mind and forging ahead, achieving great success in reform, opening up, and socialist modernization."

"Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a fundamental achievement of the Party and the people, forged through innumerable hardships and great sacrifices, and it is the right path for us to achieve national rejuvenation."

"We have realized the first centenary goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. This means that we have brought about a historic resolution to the problem of absolute poverty in China."

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"The Belt and Road Initiative should become an initiative of innovation." If you want to see the full script of this episode, please visit:http://chinaplus.cri.cn/podcast/detail/2/110854

"All the struggle, sacrifice, and creation through which the Party has united and led the Chinese people over the past hundred years has been tied together by one ultimate theme—bringing about the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."

"Without the Communist Party of China, there would be no new China and no national rejuvenation. The Party was chosen by history and the people."

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"We hope to turn the Belt and Road Initiative into a road of peace, prosperity, openness, green development and innovation and a road that brings together different civilizations."