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Xi Jinping

June 15, 1953

Xi Jinping (born 1953) is a Chinese politician who is the paramount leader of China. He has served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2012, and as president of China and chairman of the State Central Military Commission since 2013. As a teenager during the Cultural Revolution he was sent down to the rural village of Liangjiahe, Shaanxi, and he later studied chemical engineering at Tsinghua University.

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Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who has led China since 2012 as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, and as President since 2013. He is the son of the revolutionary leader Xi Zhongxun and was sent to the countryside as a youth during the Cultural Revolution.

He rose through provincial posts in Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai and joined the Politburo Standing Committee in 2007. As leader he ran a broad anti-corruption campaign, launched the Belt and Road Initiative and took a more assertive line in the South China Sea and toward Taiwan and Hong Kong.

In 2018 term limits on the presidency were removed, and in 2022 he began a third term as party leader. His rule has centralised power and tightened controls on society, including mass detention in Xinjiang.