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...Those changes have brought Hu Yunxing's life full circle. Starting in 1972, when she was a 30-year-old peasant living on a commune, Hu spent years hauling sacks of earth to reclaim land as Chairman Mao had ordered. A pumping station worked day and night to lift water from her fields over a dike and into Dongting Lake. But the dike ruptured in 1996 and swept away Hu's earthen house. Her family rebuilt it in brick, which they thought would withstand anything. Then the flood that hit two years later took half of the house away again...
...Hu, 67, is finally at peace. The government paid $2,000 to her family to dismantle what was left of their home and rebuild it a few hundred meters away?beyond where the water could reach. The authorities then shut the pumping station and left the dike to rot. The wetland she had once labored to destroy has returned to water; where her old house once stood, her son has floated a huge cage to raise fish. Migratory birds, such as rare swans and spoonbills, have returned to the area. WWF lent Hu enough money to buy a sow, which...
...history of the People's Republic, has neither the adulation of the masses nor the authority of his predecessors. It is the thousands of mayors, governors, Communist Party chiefs and other functionaries from China's 32 provinces who have become the nation's new strongmen. "Whether Jiang or Hu is in power, it doesn't affect my life," says Kevin Qiang, a 34-year-old accountant in the eastern city of Hangzhou. "The only people I care about are the leaders in Hangzhou...
...upcoming transition to new leadership threatens to further reduce the central government's authority as cadres jostle for position. If Jiang wields limited power compared to his predecessors, the enigmatic Hu, who has only made one noteworthy public address to date, has even less influence. Indeed, there is a growing movement in the capital to keep the 75-year-old Jiang in power a bit longer. His supporters argue the nation needs his steady hand beyond this fall's congress, when Hu is slated to take over...
...Meanwhile, irate citizens across the country continue to gather by the thousands to protest local corruption. Demonstrations in Henan and Liaoning provinces fizzled after organizers were given lengthy jail sentences. But collective outrage could galvanize a violent and destabilizing force. "Instead of worrying about whether Hu is going to rule or Jiang is going to rule," says a former editorial writer for the official People's Daily, "China's leaders should be trying to figure out how to control the abuses of all these local leaders." The ancient Chinese proverb: "The mountains are high and the Emperor is far away...