Xuecong Xu

"Learning for the Rise of China": Exploring Uses and Gratifications of State-Owned Online Platform

On January 1, 2019, the Chinese government launched the online platform XueXi QiangGuo, which translates into "Learning for the Rise of China." Within two months, XueXi became the top-downloaded item of the month on Apple's App Store in China. In response, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 28 active XueXi u…