Xi Jinping: The Rise of a New World Leader
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Xi Jinping: The Rise of a New World Leader Xi Jinping is the current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the People's Republic of China. He is widely considered to be the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. /b> dor o Xi was born in Beijing in 1953. His father, Xi Zhongxun, was a high-ranking Communist Party official who was purged during the Cultural Revolution. Xi himself was sent to the countryside to work as a peasant during that time. After the Cultural Revolution, Xi returned to school and eventually rose through the ranks of the Communist Party. He served as governor of Fujian province and then as party secretary of Zhejiang province before being appointed to the Politburo Standing Committee in 2007. In 2012, Xi became General Secretary of the Communist Party and President of China. He has since embarked on a series of ambitious reforms, including a crackdown on corruption and an effort to revitalize the Chinese economy. do ro Xi ...