Liangjiahe
village in Yanchuan, Yan'an
Liangjiahe is a village located in Wen'anyi Town, Yanchuan County, Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province, China. It is 5 kilometers southeast of Wenanyi Town. It was named after the Liang family who lived along the river in the Northern Song Dynasty. According to statistics in November 2015, after merging three villages, the village has 7 villager groups and 1,187 villagers. On 6 June 2019, Liangjiahe Village was included in the fifth batch of China's traditional villages by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. The village is known for being the place where Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, worked as an educated youth in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution.
History
Relationship with Xi Jinping
The village is famous because Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, once visited the countryside in the village. Liangjiahe Village is well known for being the place where Xi worked as an educated youth in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s and early 1970s and served as the Party branch secretary. Xi Jinping's superhuman physical strength was demonstrated during his time in Liangjiahe. In an interview in 2003, he said, “At that time, I carried 200 jin of wheat and walked ten miles on the mountain road without changing shoulders.” Because of his education, Xi Jinping later became the village Party branch secretary.
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