Secretary General of the Communist Party of China and President of the Peoples Republic of China

An ethnic Han, Xi Jinping was born into a wealthy family from Shaanxi province. His father, Xi Zhongxun, founder of the communist guerrilla in the north of the country, worked closely with Mao Zedong to establish the legendary Yenan base and start the Long March that would lead them to power in 1949. Considered a revolutionary hero, chief Communist Party (CPC) propaganda officer and vice premier, Xi Zhongxun was purged three times by Mao, reviled as a counterrevolutionary, and imprisoned in 1968. Rehabilitated by Deng Xiaoping (1979), he defended the reformist General Secretary Hu Yaobang and condemned the Events in Tiananmen (June 4, 1989).

In the midst of the convulsions of the Cultural Revolution, Xi Jinping was sent to work in the fields, in Shaanxi province (1969), in the framework of the vast movement for the re-education of urban youth imposed by the Maoists. A member of the Communist Youth League since 1971 and of the CCP since 1974, he became the head of his production team in the commune where he worked, until he was allowed to return to Beijing in 1975, at the age of twenty-two, proposed to a scholarship.

He studied chemical engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing (1975-1979). The university authorities, perhaps to contribute to his political promotion, assure that he later followed some postgraduate courses (1998-2002) to study Marxist theory and ideological education at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, in which he obtained excellent marks . He also received high-level legal training.

From 1979 to 1982, Xi Jinping served his military service in the Central Military Commission, the CPC body for military affairs, and was secretary to Geng Biao, then Minister of Defense. Party official in Hebei province (1982-1985), in 1985 he assumed his first position in the communist organization: vice mayor of Xiamen, a rapidly developing port city in Fujian province, facing the Formosa Strait, where he was a member of the communist leadership (1993-1998) and governor (1999-2000). He attracted significant investment from Taiwan and began to gain popularity for his straightforward style, simplicity of dress, and travel on public buses.

Alternate member of the CPC Central Committee, elected at the XV Congress (September 1997), reached office five years later at the XVI Congress (October 2002), which saw the retirement of Jiang Zemin and the consecration in the power of President Hu Jintao. His successes earned him promotion to CPC secretary and governor (2003-2007) of the prosperous coastal province of Zhejiang (with nearly 50 million inhabitants and one of the most dynamic in the country), where he gained a reputation for having a strong hand against the corruption.

Following the dismissal of Chen Liangyu (September 2006), due to scandals related to pension funds, Xi Jinping was appointed in March 2007 as head of the party in Shanghai, the headquarters of the most important regional organization. Upon taking office from him as mayor of the great coastal metropolis, he promised to be "a good apprentice, a good public servant, and a good team manager."

His accelerated political career was completed when the National People's Assembly (Parliament) elected him vice president of the State Council (executive branch) of the republic on March 15, 2008, with very special responsibilities in the preparation of the Beijing Olympic Games.

Xi assumed the presidency of China on March 14, 2013, succeeding Hu Jintao, who is leaving his position in the Standing Committee and also the general secretary of the Party, the first step in the transition from the fourth generation of communist leaders to the fifth.

He is married to the soprano and popular music singer Peng Liyuan, more famous and than her husband before he reached the party leadership. They have a daughter named Xi Mingze, better known as Xiao Muzi. Peng, with a master's degree in popular music, holds the rank of general of the civilian forces of the People's Army and ambassador of China to UNICEF.

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