Who is Xi Jinping?

The son of Communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping rose through the ranks politically in China’s coastal provinces. Xi served as the Governor of Fujian, from 1999 to 2002, and then as the Governor and the Party Committee Secretary of the neighboring Zhejiang, from 2002 to 2007. Following the dismissal of Chen Liangyu, Xi transferred to Shanghai as the Party Secretary for a brief period in 2007. Xi joined the Politburo standing committee and central secretariat in October 2007 and was Hu Jintao‘s successor. Xi served as vice-president from 2008 to 2013 and Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission from 2010 to 2012. Xi Jinping is the General Secretary of China’s Communist Party who became the President and the de facto leader of the country in 2013. He has promoted the phrase the “Chinese Dream” as the slogan to describe the role and purpose of the individual in Chinese society.

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