A historical drama about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s late father, Xi Zhongxun, will be shown on state television from Tuesday – the first time his story has been dramatised for TV.
The first episode of Time in the Northwest will make its debut during prime time on CCTV’s main channel, according to a trailer aired on Sunday.
The series spans 25 years of Xi Zhongxun’s life – from 1927 to 1952 – across 40 episodes as he rises from the son of poor farmers in rural Shaanxi province to lead the Communist Party revolution in China’s northwest, news website The Paper reported on Sunday.
It said the series highlighted Xi Zhongxun’s efforts to mobilise support for a revolutionary base in Yanan, Shaanxi, to address ethnic and religious issues in the region, and to drive economic development.
The series is set against the backdrop of the failed First United Front – an alliance between the party and the Kuomintang – and the building of the party’s revolutionary bases in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.
Xi Zhongxun is portrayed as loyal to the party, committed to his beliefs, pragmatic and deeply connected to the masses, according to the report.
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