Cartoon highlights Xi’s top favorites
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A BEIJING-based news portal has published a graphic featuring President Xi Jinping as a cartoon character to show how busy he has been over the past 15 months after he claimed in an interview with a Russian TV station that work occupied almost all his time.
Around the cartoon Xi are words such as “meetings,” “visits” and “activities,” indicating how he has devoted all his time to his country, according to www.qianlong.com.
“Where has my time gone? Surely, it is occupied by my work,” the figure says, alluding to the Chinese pop song “Where Has Time Gone?” which became a hit after it was broadcast during China Central Television’s Spring Festival Gala last month.
Since he took the helm of the Party in November 2012, Xi has visited a third of the provincial areas around China and held 12 group study sessions of the Political Bureau of the Party’s Central Committee, a system the top leadership uses to study issues of major concern.
Since he was elected China’s president in March last year, he has paid five official visits overseas. Within 39 days, he visited 14 countries on five continents, the graphic showed.
In his first foreign trips as head of state, Xi visited four countries: the Republic of Congo, South Africa, Tanzania and Russia. Over nine days from March 22, 2013, he met 32 foreign leaders and politicians and delivered 20 speeches, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said.
On February 8, Xi wrapped up his Sochi trip after attending the opening ceremony of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games. During the 43-hour visit, Xi attended 12 activities, including talking with Rossiya TV in Sochi, Wang said.
In the interview, Xi said he enjoyed reading books, watching films and travel. Reading enlightens and nourishes him, Xi said, adding that he had read many Russia authors, including Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy.
Xi also expressed his love of sports. “I love swimming and hiking. I learned swimming when I was only 4 or 5. I also love playing football, basketball and tennis,” he said.
At the Winter Games, he especially liked ice hockey.
However, he admitted he had little time to call his own.
“As a state leader, the position designated by the public, I have to always put people as the priority,” Xi said.
The website collected data for its graphic from the Party’s website (www.cpcnews.com).
It was not the first time Xi has appeared as a cartoon character.
In October last year, a five-minute animation featuring Xi, US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, told how the three state leaders achieved their positions.
It focused on the selection process of Chinese leaders while comparing China’s system with that of the US and Britain.
The animation was produced by a studio called Fuxinglushang, literally “on the road to revival,” but no details about the makers have emerged.
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