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Mao Xinyu, second from right, leaving after attending the annual National People's Congress in Beijing.Grandson Mao follows in chairman's footsteps
Mao Xinyu, the Great Helmsman's only grandson, is making waves himself following an apparent promotion to major-general, at 39, the youngest in the People's Liberation Army...
Mao Xinyu appears to be the very model of a modern major-general, with his own blog. In addition to his official duties he works to uphold the family name, having written a biography, Grandfather Mao Zedong, and sung songs in his honour...
Mao's granddaughter, Kong Dongmei, has also written about her forebear in books including Open My Family's Old Photo Album: Grandfather Mao Zedong in My Heart, although she never met him...
Her mother, Li Min, and aunt, Li Na, are members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference... Li Na has said that Mao was very strict with his children, telling a Chinese newspaper: "He didn't wish for us to become famous. He only wanted us to work with our own hands. He said he would be satisfied if we could become common labourers."
None of them followed quite that path, but unlike the offspring of other top party leaders, they did not end up as business tycoons...
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