The Prince, Episode Two, Hide and Bide

Xi Jinping's years in the farming village of Liang Jia He ended in 1975, when he got a rare opportunity to go to university. Our education had largely shut down during the Cultural Revolution and was now reopening to just a select group of students chosen by local leaders. This was before universities required competitive entrance exams. Sui Xing Zhao: "The whole world was upside down. The students became teachers to the professors"