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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), and thus the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Since 2013, Xi has also served as the seventh president of China. As a member of the fifth generation of Chinese leadership, Xi is the first CCP general secretary born after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The son of Chinese communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, Xi was exiled to rural Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province, as a teenager following his father's purge during the Cultural Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Xi Jinping is the 213th most popular politician, the 15th most popular biography from China (down from 14th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Chinese Politician.

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

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Xi Jinping ranks 213 out of 19,576Before 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 1After 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 15 out of 1,610Before 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).

Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Xi Jinping ranks 6Before 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).