The story, posted last night and became the No. 1 headline in the morning, said Guo Lixin, the taxi driver, claimed two men got on into his taxi about 7 PM in downtown Beijing on March 1 and asked him to go to the Diaoyutai Hotel. As they chatted along the way, Guo thought one of the passengers looked familiar and the passengers admitted and said: "you're the first taxi driver to recognize me." They then talked about the air-pollution in Beijing and Xi Jinping paid him RMB 30 yuan for the taxi fee. Before they left, Xi Jinping wrote on a receipt "Yi Fan Feng Shun" or "May you be well" for him. Guo decorated the writing and hanged it on the wall at home (below).
Guo Lixin pointing the writing of the passenger
The story, published on Thursday by Hong Kong-based newspaper Ta Kung Pao, was regarded as the proof of Xi's positioning as a "man of the people", and spread quickly online. However, after Xinhua news agency's statement, soon in the evening Ta Kung Pao removed all of the reports including the photos, and made an apology admitting that the whole story was fake.
I, too, believe this story was fabricated too, because it is very difficult to take a taxi in the peak time in Beijing. You wanna hail a taxi at 7 PM in downtown Beijing? Oh come on, it is almost impossible!
So this was the very truth: Xi actually failed to find a taxi. Maybe he did suppose to talk to some normal people but finally failed. And Ta Kung Pao heard the story and posted it online before confirming with his office.
Xinhua news agency had to deny the whole story because it is really impossible to take a taxi in peak hours in Beijing. Do you want to know how hard it is to take a taxi in Beijing? Just think about why Mr Mao Zedong's statue always keeps hailing (below):
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