Xi Focus: `I was once a farmer`
(WorldNews China)

BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- In 1969, a young man, not quite 16 years old, left Beijing and settled in a poor village some 1,000 km away in northwest China, where he spent the next seven years working as a farmer. More than five decades later, the memories of toiling on the Loess Plateau are still engraved in his mind. Like seeds in fertile soil, those experiences have grown into an enduring sense of concern for the welfare of farmers. The man is Xi Jinping, now China`s top leader. `I was a farmer... and knew what villagers wanted the most!` President Xi recalled during a foreign trip in...