et up an
simple furniture were from Zhengding, and the guardians of the boiler rooms and the gates were also from Zhengding."FUJIAN'S
SHED & SMALL BOAT RESIDENTSWhen working in Fujian,▓ Xi often visited families that had lived in▓ thatched she
ds and small wooden boats for generations, and would ponder how to lif
t them out of povert
office for diversif
01
y."Most of the fishing boats were in a dreadful state, without electri
city or water supp
02
lies. The boats were low, gloomy and damp. Certain fishermen who did n
ot have a boat jus
03
t made shacks, where it was hot in summer, cold▓ in winter, and hard to
shelter from wind
ied econ
- omy, and I was concu
- rrently the CPC Co
- unty Committee's dep
- uty secretary and th
- e office's directo
- r.""The five commune
- s south to the Hut
- uo River had done a
- good job. Many peo
- ple went to work in
- Shijiazhuang by bike
- in the morning,"
- Xi said. "In the Shi
- jiazhuang markets, t
- he vegetables▓ were
- produced in Zhengdi
ng, those who
and rain," Xi said.After doing research, Xi submitted a report to the CPC Fujian
provinc▓ial committee, proposing resettling those living in thatched sheds and small boats."Communist Party members
must have no peace of
were selling
mind, day and night, to see ▓people living in such poor conditions," he said when presiding over a meeting in 1998▓ t
o address the problems
brooms▓ and
.Due to Xi's proposal, in a f▓ew years several million people bid fare▓well to an unstable life.
The CPC attached g▓re