President Xi Jinping Eats Steamed Buns with The Common People

From NetEase:

Xi Jinping Lines Up To Buy Steamed Buns at Steamed Bun Shop, Pays for Own Bill and Carries Own Meal Tray

ChinaNews December 28 report — December 28 noon, netizen “四海微传播” posted a microblog claiming that General-Secretary Xi Jinping was in line to buy steamed buns at a Beijing steamed bun shop.

The content of the microblog posted by netizen “四海微传播” was: “Dears, I’m not mistaken, am I?! Big Xi has come to Qing Feng [name of shop] to eat steamed buns! Uploading photo” and attached a photograph.

Afterward, at 1:21pm, another microblog was posted, containing: “Big Xi lines up to buy steamed buns, and even pays his own bill, carries his own tray, and gets his own buns. In the future, Qing Feng can release a President Xi Meal.”

After the microblog was posted, the microblogs of The People’s Daily, Xinhua, CCTV, and other official media personalities all reshared/forwarded it one after another, with netizens leaping to click on “praise” [“like”] and commenting continuously.

There is indeed a “Big X Lines Up to Buy Steamed Buns” trending topic on Sina Weibo, as well as a #hashtag#. However, the hottest microblog post about this story was by popular Chinese Weibo celebrity Happy张江 joking that the only reason Xi Jinping appeared in public to buy buns was to overshadow a concert by Wang Feng [one of the judges on Voice of China and in a relationship with Zhang Ziyi]. This is a joke that may be best understood by those familiar with Chinese entertainment industry news and gossip.

Comments from NetEase:

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Being close to the people is good.

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A manifestation of being in touch with the people.

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President Xi is modest and unassuming!

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The people’s good leader.

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Recently, corrupt government officials have frequently fallen, and now Big Xi eats steamed buns with the ordinary common people. These are all using actual action to tell us that [government leaders] cannot become too separated from the people, that only Party members and cadres are the public servants of the people!

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As someone who has always just read comments and never commented, I too can’t sit still and must come on here to say that truly, China has hope now.

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Well done!

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Chairman Xi is great.

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Modest and unassuming, a good chairman.

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