Resume Building in China

Good article that helps explaining what it takes to get to the top in China.

This quote captures it:

"China’s leadership still pays heed to its heritage as a party of peasants, and it has tended to promote officials who can claim to be deeply rooted in the rural struggle. But it has also tended to favor “princelings,” the privileged offspring of former leaders who had ties to the party’s revolutionary history"       

Elite and Deft, Xi Aimed High Early in China - NY Times