No-pants greeting a web sensation
State media coverage of a routine visit to an Inner Mongolia home by incoming premier Li Keqiang has become a colorful internet sensation after a boy appeared on camera half-naked.
Web users circulated the footage from state broadcaster China Central TV, cheering the rare unplanned blip in usually staid state-controlled coverage of tightly scripted trips by officials.
Li - set to be promoted to premier next month - was speaking with the head of the family in a modest bedroom in Baotou city when the boy popped out of a wardrobe behind them not wearing any underwear. He quickly ducked under a blanket, but his buttocks were exposed to the cameras as he did so.
"The kid was having fun as if there was nothing special going on in front of him, it was amusing," said one internet user going by the name Hongtailang. "It is rare to see this kind of image on TV."
Another said: "It's so nice when things are spontaneous and true!"
State TV regularly reports on the public appearances of senior leaders as part of a vast government-controlled propaganda effort.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Web users circulated the footage from state broadcaster China Central TV, cheering the rare unplanned blip in usually staid state-controlled coverage of tightly scripted trips by officials.
Li - set to be promoted to premier next month - was speaking with the head of the family in a modest bedroom in Baotou city when the boy popped out of a wardrobe behind them not wearing any underwear. He quickly ducked under a blanket, but his buttocks were exposed to the cameras as he did so.
"The kid was having fun as if there was nothing special going on in front of him, it was amusing," said one internet user going by the name Hongtailang. "It is rare to see this kind of image on TV."
Another said: "It's so nice when things are spontaneous and true!"
State TV regularly reports on the public appearances of senior leaders as part of a vast government-controlled propaganda effort.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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