BEIJING: A bowl of rice might not sound like much, but for the leader of the world’s most populous country, a man who has known real hunger, it carries a lot of significance.
In 1969, Chinese President Xi Jinping, a teenager at the time, left Beijing for the rugged, rural village of Liangjiahe in northwest China.
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