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Xi Jinping

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Xi Jinping (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2012, and the president of China since 2013. The elder son of Red Army veteran Xi Zhongxun's second marriage to Qi Xin, Xi was born in Beijing and was exiled to rural Liangjiahe Village, Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province, as a teenager following his father's purge during the Cultural Revolution. He lived in a yaodong in the village of Liangjiahe, where he joined the CCP after several failed attempts and worked as the local party secretary. After studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University as a worker-peasant-soldier student, Xi rose through the ranks politically in China's coastal provinces. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 144 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 139 in 2024). Xi Jinping is the 213th most popular politician, the 14th most popular biography from China (down from 13th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Chinese Politician.

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

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Xi Jinping is trending because his latest flurry of high-profile moves is shaping early 2026 diplomacy: his nationally broadcast New Year’s address laid out economic priorities and a sharper tone on issues such as Taiwan, drawing intense commentary at home and abroad.4,6 Days later, he hosted South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Beijing for the year’s first major head-of-state visit, where the two leaders pledged to deepen their strategic partnership, signed 15 cooperation deals, and discussed regional security, including North Korea’s nuclear program.1,2 Xi also sent prominent messages to foreign leaders, congratulating Switzerland’s new president and highlighting upgraded free-trade cooperation,3 and lauded the launch of the 2026 China–Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges, underscoring Beijing’s push for soft power in the Global South.7 Together, these tightly sequenced actions have propelled Xi to the center of global political conversation.

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  1. https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xw/fyrbt/202601/t20260107_11807882.html
  2. https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xw/zyxw/202601/t20260105_11806810.html
  3. https://eu.china-mission.gov.cn/eng/mhs/202601/t20260102_11796978.htm
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbZ7Hk80tpo
  5. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3339252/taiwan-xi-jinping-and-nothing-venezuela-donald-trump
  6. https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/xi-jinpings-new-year-2026-address-taiwan-now-or-never/
  7. https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-01-08/Xi-congratulates-start-of-China-Africa-people-to-people-exchange-year-1JLYIq4yowM/p.html
  8. https://www.gmfus.org/news/watching-china-europe-january-2026
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Among Politicians

Among politicians, Xi Jinping ranks 213 out of 19,576. Before him are Isabella I of Castile, Artaxerxes I of Persia, Bill Clinton, Pol Pot, Sejong the Great, and Francis I of France. After him are Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Haakon VII of Norway, Sun Yat-sen, Lech Wałęsa, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Xi Jinping ranks 1. After him are Richard Stallman, Brigitte Macron, Zico, Moon Jae-in, Herta Müller, Jerome Powell, Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Bannon, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Tony Blair.

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In China

Among people born in China, Xi Jinping ranks 14 out of 1,610. Before him are Zheng He (1387), Li Bai (701), Sun Tzu (-544), Sima Qian (-145), Puyi (1906), and 14th Dalai Lama (1935). After him are Sun Yat-sen (1866), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Du Fu (712), Ip Man (1893), Wu Zetian (624), and Zhuang Zhou (-369).

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Among Politicians In China

Among politicians born in China, Xi Jinping ranks 6. Before him are Kublai Khan (1215), Qin Shi Huang (-258), Huang Xianfan (1899), Mao Zedong (1893), and Puyi (1906). After him are Sun Yat-sen (1866), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Wu Zetian (624), Hu Jintao (1942), Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), and Temür Khan (1265).

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