Xi Jinping
Xi has been the paramount leader of China, the most prominent political leader in China, since 2012. The son of Chinese Communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, he was exiled to rural Yanchuan County as a teenager following his father’s purge during the Cultural Revolution. After studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University, Xi rose through the ranks politically in China’s coastal provinces.
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Xi has been the paramount leader of China, the most prominent political leader in China, since 2012. The son of Chinese Communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, he was exiled to rural Yanchuan County as a teenager following his father’s purge during the Cultural Revolution. After studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University, Xi rose through the ranks politically in China’s coastal provinces. He was Governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002, before becoming Governor and Party Secretary of neighbouring Zhejiang from 2002 to 2007. In 2008 he was designated as Hu Jintao’s presumed successor as paramount leader; to that end, Xi was appointed Vice President of the People’s Republic of China and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission. In 2018, he abolished presidential term limits, allowing him to rule indefinitely. He has often been described as a dictator by political and academic observers, citing an increase of censorship and mass surveillance, a deterioration in human rights, and a cult of personality developing around him. Xi has significantly centralised institutional power by taking on a wide range of leadership positions, including chairing the newly formed CCP National Security Commission, as well as new steering committees on economic and social reforms, military restructuring and modernization, and the internet. Xi’s political thoughts have been incorporated into the party and state constitutions. Xi is the first CCP General Secretary born after the establishment of the people’s republic of China.
His anti-corruption campaign has led to the downfall of prominent incumbent and retired Communist Party officials, including members of the Politburo Standing Committee. His father was from Fuping County, Shaanxi, and Xi could further trace his patrilineal descent from Xiying in Dengzhou, Henan. Xi went to the Beijing No. 25 School, and then Beijing Bayi School, in the 1960s. He became friends with Liu He, who later became China’s vice-premier and a close advisor to Xi after he become China’s paramount leader. In 1963, when he was age 10, his father was purged from the Party and sent to work in a factory in Luoyang,. In May 1966, Xi cut short his secondary education when all secondary classes were halted for students to criticise their teachers. One of Xi’s sisters committed suicide from the Student Revolution. Later, his mother was forced to publicly denounce his father, as he was paraded before a crowd as an enemy of the revolution. He later worked as the party secretary of Liangjiahe, where he later lived in a house in a cave. In 1969, Xi’s father was thrown into prison in 1968 when Xi was 15. Without the protection of Xi Xi was sent to Wenanyi Town, WenanyI Town, Yanchan County, Yan’an, in 1969 in Mao Zedong’s Down to the Countryside Movement, where Xi worked as a few days later as a party secretary. He is also the father of Qiaoqiao, born in 1949 and An’an, born in 1952.
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