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Greeting from the vice presidentPosted by Eric Mu on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM
 Qianjiang Evening News January 6, 2010 The "National Low-level Party Construction Mobile Phone Network" is a recently launched SMS message distribution system that purportedly enables grassroots party cadres to consult on issues and voice their opinions. Yesterday over a million party secretaries and "university graduate village cadres" received a greeting message signed by China's vice president Xi Jinping on their mobiles. The message reads: "The National Low-level Party Construction Mobile Phone Network was officially launched today! To all the low-level party secretaries and university graduate village cadres, I give you my kindest regards on behalf of the Party Central Committee! Xi Jinping." According to today's Qianjiang Evening News, which prominently reported the story under a big headline "Xi Jinping sent me a greeting message", the local party cadres in Hangzhou, capital city of Zhejiang Province who received the message were highly inspired.  Xi Jinping's greeting message ..."It was signed by the VICE PRESIDENT! I was so excited!" said party secretary Sun, "at first I couldn't believe it, so I called the Cunyuan Street Community party secretary Zhang Jianpin, who told me that he also received the message." Zhang exclaimed on the phone "The message system has reached to our lowest-level party branches. What efficiency! I am very proud." Still incredulous, Sun dialed the numbers of other neighborhood party secretaries. After receiving confirmations from all the colleagues, Sun's doubts were gone: "It was true, this was really from the vice president!" Links and Sources
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Comments on Greeting from the vice president
Am I the only one who is less than wowed by the effort of Xi Jinping? The man only needs to press "Send" once, and the message instantly goes out to every number on a list that might be thousands long. Is this really the type of thing to get giddy over?
All Xi Jinping stories are glorious. I truly, truly hope that he will become president, every day will be hilarious.
""I will always cherish this message", said Zhang Wei, who has been a village cadre since 2008 after graduating from Ningbo Costume College, "we are just small village level officials, but still the Party's Central Committee cares about us."
God help us all.
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