A Glimpse of the Human Moment of Chinese Leaders

Premier Wen Jiabao (left) and President Hu Jintao (right) sharing a laugh following a day’s work at the recent 18th Party Congress

A Chinese micro-blogger, Wang Dongdong tweeted the above image on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter on November 23, which has been retweeted over 103,000 times. The blogger [zh] said,

I really like this picture. Why doesn’t our media give us more images of leaders like this one, instead of always making them look so old-fashioned?

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