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This photo taken on September 29, 2017 shows a child playing in the unlit corridor of an apartment building in Nanjie village, in China's central Henan province. Every year, hundreds of thousands of visitors flock to the hamlet in central Henan province which has become an attraction with its idealised vision of village life right out of the Communist past. While the Communist Party prepares to give a second term to its current supremo, Xi Jinping, at a major congress next week, Nanjie still clings firmly to Mao, while glossing over the turbulence and violence of his rule. / AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER / TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-POLITICS-TOURISM,FOCUS BY BEN DOOLEY (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)

This photo taken on September 29, 2017 shows a child playing in the unlit corridor of an apartment building in Nanjie village, in China's central Henan province. Every year, hundreds of thousands of visitors flock to the hamlet in central Henan province which has become an attraction with its idealised vision of village life right out of the Communist past. While the Communist Party prepares to give a second term to its current supremo, Xi Jinping, at a major congress next week, Nanjie still clings firmly to Mao, while glossing over the turbulence and violence of his rule. / AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER / TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-POLITICS-TOURISM,FOCUS BY BEN DOOLEY (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)
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