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Opinion | Who's the Xi Jinping insider posting his activities on Weibo?
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A "mysterious" weibo account devoted to publishing the daily activities of Chinese president-in-waiting Xi Jinping intrigued Chinese media and netizens with its exclusive photos and insider knowledge of the country's most powerful man.
The account on China’s popular Twitter-like service Sina Weibo, named “Hao Hao Xue Xi” (meaning “study Xi thoroughly” in Chinese), has published 343 posts and drawn more than 136,000 followers as of Tuesday morning.
Written in a conversational style and studded with phrases in the Shaanxi dialect, the posts seem to give live updates of much of Xi’s daily work and official trips.
Many photos have been posted alongside the text. Judging from the images, they seemed to have been taken with a mobile device at a short distance from Xi.
On Sunday, a photo, possibly taken from the inside of a plane, showed an airport runway. The post read: “Xi’s plane has just landed in Lanzhou.”
Then it said: “Xi isn’t on the plane. He wanted to get a true picture [of Gansu], so he didn’t stick to the planned itinerary.”
On Monday, a photo was posted of a tired-looking Xi yawning inside a bus:
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