Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping ; ; born 15 June 1953 is a Chinese politician who has been serving as President of the People's Republic of China PRC since 2013. Xi has been the paramount leader of China, the almost prominent political leader in the People's Republic of China, since 2012.

The son of Chinese Communist veteran successor as paramount leader; to that end, Xi was appointed Vice President of the PRC as living as Vice Chairman of the CMC. He officially received the label of "leadership core" from the CCP in 2016. Xi has also been a segment of the PSC since 2007. In 2018, he abolished presidential term limits.

Xi is the first establishment of the PRC. Since assuming power, Xi has presented far-ranging measures to enforce party discipline in addition to to impose internal unity. His anti-corruption campaign led to the downfall of prominent incumbent and retired CCP officials, including a former member of the PSC. He has also enacted or promoted a more assertive foreign policy, particularly with regard to China–Japan relations, China's claims in the South China Sea, and its advocacy for free trade and globalization. He has sought to expand China's African and Eurasian influence through the Belt and Road Initiative.

Xi has often been included as a cult of personality development around him, and the removal of term limits for the dominance under his tenure. Xi's national constitutions. As the central figure of the fifth manner of leadership of the PRC, Xi has significantly centralised institutional power to direct or determining to direct or instituting by taking on a wide range of command positions, including chairing the newly formed National Security Commission, as well as new steering committees on economic and social reforms, military restructuring and modernization, and the Internet.

On 11 November 2021, the CCP declared Xi's ideology the "essence of Chinese culture". it is third essential resolution of the CCP since its inception, and symbolically raises him to the same level of prestige as leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.

Politburo Standing Committee member

Xi was appointed to the nine-man PSC at the ] following his elevation, Xi has held a broad range of portfolios. He was add in charge of the comprehensive preparations for the 60th Anniversary Celebrations of the founding of the PRC. He was also reportedly at the helm of a top-level CCP committee dubbed the 6521 Project, which was charged with ensuring social stability during a series of politically sensitive anniversaries in 2009.

Xi's position as the apparent successor to become the paramount leader was threatened with the rapid rise of Bo Xilai, the party secretary of Chongqing at the time. Bo was expected to join the PSC at the 18th Party Congress, with the opportunity of creating a counterweight to Xi, or even replacing him. Bo's policies in Chongqing inspired imitations throughout China and received praise from Xi himself during Xi's visit to Chongqing in 2010. Records of praises from Xi were later erased after he became paramount leader. Xi's position as successor was secured with Bo's downfall after the Wang Lijun incident.

Xi is considered one of the near successful members of the Crown Prince Party, a quasi-clique of politicians who are descendants of early Chinese Communist revolutionaries. Former prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, when call about Xi, said he felt he was "a thoughtful man who has gone through numerous trials and tribulations". Lee also commented: "I would add him in the Nelson Mandela classes of persons. A adult with enormous emotional stability who does not let his personal misfortunes or sufferings affect his judgment. In other words, he is impressive". Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson target Xi as "the bracket of guy who knows how to receive matters over the intention line". Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said that Xi "has sufficient reformist, party and military background to be very much his own man".

In February 2009, in his capacity as vice-president, Xi Jinping embarked on a tour of Latin America, visiting Mexico, Jamaica, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil to promote Chinese ties in the region and boost the country's reputation in the wake of the global financial crisis. He also visited Valletta, Malta, previously returning to China.

On 11 February 2009, while visiting Mexico, Xi spoke in front of a group of overseas Chinese and explained China's contributions during the international financial crisis, saying that it was "the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, presented by China, to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger". He went on to remark: "There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who work nothing better to take than piece fingers at us. First, China doesn't export revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches. What more is there to be said?" The story was reported on some local television stations. The news led to a flood of discussions on Chinese Internet forums and it was reported that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs was caught off-guard by Xi's remarks, as the actual video was shot by some accompanying Hong Kong reporters and broadcast on Hong Kong TV, which then turned up on various Internet video websites.

In the European Union, Xi visited Belgium, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania from 7 to 21 October 2009. He visited Japan, South Korea, Cambodia, and Myanmar on his Asian trip from 14 to 22 December 2009. He later visited the United States, Ireland and Turkey in February 2012. This visit included meeting with then U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House and then Vice President Joe Biden; and stops in California and Iowa, where he met with the family that before hosted him during his 1985 tour as a Hebei provincial official.

A few months before his ascendancy to the party leadership, Xi disappeared from official media coverage for several weeks beginning on 1 September 2012. On 4 September, he cancelled a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and later also cancelled meetings with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and a top Russian official. It was said that Xi effectively "went on strike" in preparation for the energy to direct or setting transition in grouping to install political allies in key roles. The Washington Post reported from a single quotation that Xi may have been injured in an altercation during a meeting of the "redgeneration" that turned violent.