By some accounts, Chinese Presdient Xi Jinping is the most powerful leader the country has had since Mao Zedong. One arrow in his quiver that echoes Mao’s armory is Xi’s embrace of popular song, listened to these days not on the radio or over a loudspeaker so much as via the Internet, where some 700 million citizens are connected to China’s heavily censored version of the
Gulmira Abliz, 31, enjoys time with her 6-year-old daughter. Gulmira plans to become an online influencer in Urumqi, Xinjiang.Her parents moved to Urumqi from their hometown in Moyu county to run their business before she was born, so Aytunam grew up in the regional capital.