QUICK FACTS
NAME
Xi Jinping
OCCUPATION
President (China)
DATE OF BIRTH
June 15, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH
Beijing, China
EDUCATOON
Tsinghua University
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 Zhejiang 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 and Chairman of 17th CPC Central Committee Party Building Leading Small Group. 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.
In 2010 he became Vice-Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission and Vice-Chairman, Central Military Commission of the PRC.
In 2012 he became General Secretary of the 18th CPC Central Committee a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the 18th CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission. In 2013 Xi was elected Chairman of the PRC Central Military Commission and President of China.
In 2014 Xi became head of China's new national security commission.
