Founding Fathers: Xi Zhongxun: Father of a Great Nation’s Leader

As a student revolutionary, Xi Zhongxun saw that China’s communists had only one source of strength: not money, not modern arms, not foreign aid, but the support of China’s plain folk. For them, the maxim ‘Serve the People’ was an imperative. He set himself against all kinds of bureaucratism and error. He spent years in wrongful imprisonment for this devotion to principle. But at no time did he waver from his faith in a bright future for China, which he was certain would be led by an enlightened Communist Party.