Xi protégé on high-powered propaganda team to spread president’s message
Three dozen senior cadres will fan out across the country from this weekend to drive home key points from the top
Three Politburo members, including a prominent protégé of President Xi Jinping, will embark on a nationwide tour this weekend to promote the president’s ideology and policy initiatives.
Observers said the decision to include Chen Miner, Xi’s close associate and one of the youngest Politburo members, in the group pointed to his expanding role in the leadership.
The Politburo trio will be part of a 36-member “central publicity team” that from Sunday will go to companies, villages, schools, communities and government departments to talk about the key points made in Xi’s 3½-hour speech at the Communist Party’s national congress last month, according to Xinhua.
They would expand on the party’s governance goals for the coming decades as well as Xi’s new ideology, which was enshrined in the party’s charter, the report said.
The party usually deploys such groups to spread the message after each congress but this time the team is particularly high-powered.
Besides Chen, the line-up includes Yang Xiaodu, the party’s No 2 anti-corruption official, and Huang Kunming, head of the propaganda department.
