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How Xi Jinping tackled sanitation challenges in the 1980s

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In the 1980s, rural sanitation in Zhengding County, north China's Hebei Province, was a major issue – unsanitary conditions, resistance to change, and pressure from above to quickly fix things. But instead of forcing a quick solution, Xi Jinping, then a senior official of Zhengding, took a different approach. Watch how his strategy reshaped an entire county's living conditions and set a model for future reforms.

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