Moments of President Xi Jinping with students

A SPECIAL LECTURER

Gu Xinyu still vividly remembers an unexpected lecture in September 2020. She was then a junior student at Yuelu Academy of Hunan University in central China's Hunan province.

The lecturer was Xi, who joined the students during an ideology and politics lesson.

"The general secretary was approachable, and his speech was so humorous that we could understand it at once," she said, recalling that Xi had used a metaphor containing Russian "vodka" and Chinese liquor "erguotou" to explain the necessity of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context.

"He was telling us to connect Marxism tenets with specific realities and social practices while studying the subject," said Gu.

Upon his departure, Xi encouraged the students to live up to the expectations of the times, study hard and develop sound values.