Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping ( (listen) SHEE jin-PING; Chinese: 习近平, [ɕǐ tɕîn pʰǐŋ]; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2012, and President of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 2013. Xi has been the paramount leader of China, the most prominent political leader in China, since 2012. The son of Chinese Communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, he was exiled to rural Yanchuan County as a teenager following his father's purge during the Cultural Revolution, and lived in a cave in the village of Liangjiahe, where he joined the CCP and worked as the party secretary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Xi Jinping has received more than 12,958,772 page views. His biography is available in 118 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 113 in 2019). Xi Jinping is the 287th most popular politician (up from 337th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from China (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Chinese Politician.

Xi Jinping is most famous for being the President of China.