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5 days ago · His father, Xi Zhongxun, was one of the first-generation leaders that participated on the Long March to Yan’an, and became the vice-premier of the PRC. One of the big regrets of Mao Zedong and that generation of leaders is that they never went back to Ruijin after the Long March, since it was such a hard-to-reach mountainous region.
1 day ago · Xi Jinping (b. 1953) is a Chinese politician and government official who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 2012 and as the president of the People’s Republic of China since 2013. Previously he served as China’s vice president (2008–13).
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2 days ago · After his father Xi Zhongxun, a former CPC leader, was purged during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76), Xi went to Shaanxi in 1968 where he worked in a farm before becoming the Party secretary ...
4 days ago · The son of a revolutionary who crushed his rivals to become the general secretary of the Communist Party of China in 2012, Xi Jinping is now the first Chinese leader to have cemented a third...
22 hours ago · [45] [46] Other leaders who favored Deng's reforms include Xi Zhongxun (the father of Xi Jinping), Wan Li, Hu Qili and others. [47] [48] [49] Another influential leader was Chen Yun, regarded by some as the second most powerful person in China after Deng with more conservative ideology of the reforms.
1 day ago · Xi's commitment to reform was influenced by his father, Xi Zhongxun, an old revolutionary as well as a champion of reform and opening-up. In 1978, the senior Xi was appointed as a major official of south China's Guangdong Province.
4 days ago · The son of Chinese Communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, Xi was born June 15, 1953 in Beijing, China. A prominent figure in the Chinese government since the early 2000s, Xi has become a polarizing...