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Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
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Biography Revised: 8/6/2008
Career Data Updated: 3/25/2009
Biography
Xi Jinping, male, Han nationality, is a native of Fuping, Shaanxi Province.
He was born in 1953, joined the CYLC in 1971 and joined the CPC in 1974.
Xi has served in four provinces during his government and Party career: Shaanxi, Hebei, Fujian and Zhejiang. He has held Party positions in the CPC Fuzhou City Committee, and in 1990 he became president of the Party school in Fuzhou City. In 1999 he was elected vice-governor of Fujian province, then governor a year later. In 2002 he took up senior government and Party positions in Zhejinag Province.
Xi Jinping was an alternate member of the 15th CPC Central Committee and was a member of the 16th CPC Central Committee. In 2007 he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo Bureau of the 17th CPC Central Committee. He is also the President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
In 2008, he became Vice-President of the People's Republic of China.
