Xi Jinping



"Xi Jinping. The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, the President of the People's Republic of China, and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission. If Jinping finds out, he must've been trying to make China look strong once again so it can terrify Taiwan, South Korea and Japan, the three capitalist nations of Asia, and impress North Korea as well."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Rise of Lori Loud

Xi Jinping (Chinese: 习近平; pinyin: Xí Jìnpíng; Mandarin: [ɕǐ tɕîn.pʰǐŋ]) is a Chinese politician currently serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission. As Xi holds the top offices of the party and the military, in addition to being the head of state through the office of the president, he is sometimes referred to as China's "paramount leader;" in 2016, the party officially gave him the title of "core" leader. As General Secretary, Xi holds an ex-officio seat on the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, China's top decision-making body.

Xi Jinping is the first General Secretary to have been born after the Second World War. The son of Chinese Communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, Xi rose through the ranks politically in China's coastal provinces. Xi was governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002, and governor, then party secretary of neighboring Zhejiang province from 2002 to 2007. Following the dismissal of Chen Liangyu, Xi was transferred to Shanghai as party secretary for a brief period in 2007. Xi joined the Politburo Standing Committee and central secretariat in October 2007, spending the next five years as Hu Jintao's presumed successor. Xi was vice president from 2008 to 2013 and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission from 2010 to 2012.