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Clothes maketh the man of the people in China
2006-02-26
Chinese premier Wen Jiabao visiting flood zone in Shaanxi's Huaxian county on Oct 1st 2003 |
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People across China are hailing a simple winter coat as a sure sign that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is a man of the people. Glowing praise in the media and on the Internet is not for the coat's plain style or grey-green colour, but to the fact that Wen has been wearing it for at least a decade. Last month, a news Web site matched photographs of Wen's recent Lunar New Year visit to a village in eastern Shandong province to shots from a trip to a Shandong market in winter 1995 and found he was wearing the same coat on both tours. "A salute to Premier Wen. He is just like my next door neighbour: a good friend and frugal neighbour," said one of a flood of responses to the pictures, the China Daily reported. Getting the most out of clothes is somewhat of a tradition among China's Communist leadership. Despite being known abroad as the most debonair of the generation of leaders under Mao Zedong, late Premier Zhou Enlai impressed China's masses by hanging on to an old pair of pyjamas which have since been immortalised in Chinese schoolbooks. "Premier Zhou Enlai's patch-ridden pajamas touched the hearts of millions and remain a constant reminder of frugality to the younger generation," the China Daily gushed on its Web site, www.chinadaily.com.cn. "His simple and frugal living style has been well carried on by Premier Wen Jiabao."
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