Xi Jinping
Politician
1953 –
Who is Xi Jinping?
Xi Jinping is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, the President of the People's Republic of China, and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission. As General Secretary, he is also an ex officio member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee, China's de facto top decision-making body.
Son of communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping rose through the ranks politically in China's coastal provinces. He served as the Governor of Fujian between 1999 and 2002, then as Governor and CPC party chief of the neighboring Zhejiang between 2002 and 2007. Following the dismissal of Chen Liangyu, Xi was transferred to Shanghai as the party secretary for a brief period in 2007. Xi was promoted to the central leadership in October 2007, groomed to become Hu Jintao's successor.
Xi is now the leader of the People's Republic's fifth generation of leadership. He has called for a renewed campaign against corruption, continued market economic reforms, an open approach to governance, and a comprehensive national renewal under the neologism "Chinese Dream".
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- Born
- Jun 15, 1953
Beijing - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Peng Liyuan
(1987/09/01 - ) - Ke Lingling
- Peng Liyuan
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Chinese
- Nationality
- China
- Profession
- Education
- Tsinghua University
(1975 - 1979) - Tsinghua University
(1998 - 2002)
- Tsinghua University
- Lived in
- Beijing
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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