The four comprehensives

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Video Extols China’s Party Slogans, Turning to Rap and Beethoven

 

 

China’s Communist Party propagandists turned to rap andBeethoven this week in their quest to reach a target audience often rendered indifferent to dull party slogans by lifelong consumption.

“It is everyone’s dream, to build a moderately prosperous society comprehensively,” goes the song in a cartoon video released by Xinhua, the state news agency. It extols the “Four Comprehensives,” priorities that President Xi Jinping laid out in December 2014:

• Comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society,

• Comprehensively deepen reform,

• Comprehensively govern the country according to the law,

• Comprehensively apply strictness in governing the party.

 

The tune turns to the swelling strains of the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, as the cartoon figures sing that, “with the Four Comprehensives, the China Dream will not be far away.”

In recent years, Chinese party propagandists have shown a growing interest in using music and animation to convey their messages. In October, the Fuxing Lushang Studio, a mysterious team that has produced several viral videos praising the party, released a song in English about China’s 13th Five-Year Plan.