Mao Xinyu, the only grandson of Mao Zedong, has recently been promoted to the rank of major general. According to a recent report by Hunan media, the Hunan Provincial People's Government Office in Beijing invited Mao Xinyu, deputy director of the Department of War Theory and Strategic Research of the Chinese Military Academy of Sciences, with the rank of major general, to give a party lesson to the staff of the provincial office in Beijing on the theme of "leader's family style". According to news reports, when attending the opening ceremony of the Hunan International Tourism Festival, Mao Xinyu also used the identity of "major general".