General Secretary of CPC Central Committee

Profile: Xi Jinping and his era

The following is the biographical sketch of Xi Jinping:

Xi Jinping, male, Han ethnicity, was born in June 1953 and is from Fuping, Shaanxi Province. He began his first job in January 1969 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in January 1974. Xi graduated from School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University where he completed an in-service graduate program in Marxist theory and ideological and political education. He holds a Doctor of Law degree.

Xi is currently General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, President of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and Chairman of the PRC Central Military Commission.

2013 -

General Secretary, CPC Central Committee

Chairman, CPC Central Military Commission

President, PRC

Chairman, PRC Central Military Commission

2012 - 2013

General Secretary, CPC Central Committee

Chairman, CPC Central Military Commission

Vice President, PRC

Vice Chairman, PRC Central Military Commission

2010 - 2012

Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Member, CPC Central Committee Secretariat

Vice President, PRC

Vice Chairman, CPC Central Military Commission

Vice Chairman, PRC Central Military Commission

President, Central Party School

2008 - 2010

Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Member, CPC Central Committee Secretariat

Vice President, PRC

President, Central Party School

2007 - 2008

Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Member, CPC Central Committee Secretariat

President, Central Party School

2007

Secretary, CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

First Secretary, Party Committee of the Shanghai Garrison Command

2003 - 2007

Secretary, CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee

Chairman, Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress

First Secretary, Party Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Military Region

2002 - 2003

Secretary, CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee

Acting Governor, Zhejiang Province

First Secretary, Party Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Military Region

Vice Chairman, National Defense Mobilization Committee of the Nanjing Military Area Command

Chairman, Zhejiang Provincial National Defense Mobilization Committee

2002

Deputy Secretary, CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee

Acting Governor, Zhejiang Province

Vice Chairman, National Defense Mobilization Committee of the Nanjing Military Area Command

Chairman, Zhejiang Provincial National Defense Mobilization Committee

2000 - 2002

Deputy Secretary, CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

Governor, Fujian Province

Vice Chairman, National Defense Mobilization Committee of the Nanjing Military Area Command

Chairman, Fujian Provincial National Defense Mobilization Committee

First Political Commissar, Fujian Provincial Anti-aircraft Artillery Reserve Division

Attended an in-service graduate program in Marxist theory and ideological and political education at School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University and was awarded a Doctor of Law degree (1998-2002)

1999 - 2000

Deputy Secretary, CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

Acting Governor, Fujian Province

Vice Chairman, National Defense Mobilization Committee of the Nanjing Military Area Command

Chairman, Fujian Provincial National Defense Mobilization Committee

First Political Commissar, Fujian Provincial Anti-aircraft Artillery Reserve Division

1996 - 1999

Deputy Secretary, CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

First Political Commissar, Fujian Provincial Anti-aircraft Artillery Reserve Division

1995 - 1996

Deputy Secretary, CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

Secretary, CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee

Chairman, Standing Committee of the Fuzhou Municipal People's Congress

First Secretary, Party Committee of the Fuzhou Military Sub-region

1993 - 1995

Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

Secretary, CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee

Chairman, Standing Committee of the Fuzhou Municipal People's Congress

First Secretary, Party Committee of the Fuzhou Military Sub-region

1990 - 1993

Secretary, CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee, Fujian Province

Chairman, Standing Committee of the Fuzhou Municipal People's Congress, Fujian Province

First Secretary, Party Committee of the Fuzhou Military Sub-region

1988 - 1990

Secretary, CPC Ningde Prefectural Committee, Fujian Province

First Secretary, Party Committee of the Ningde Military Sub-region

1985 - 1988

Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Xiamen Municipal Committee, Fujian Province

Vice Mayor, Xiamen

1983 - 1985

Secretary, CPC Zhengding County Committee, Hebei Province

First Political Commissar and Party Committee First Secretary, Zhengding County Military Affairs Department, Hebei Province

1982 - 1983

Deputy Secretary, CPC Zhengding County Committee, Hebei Province

1979 - 1982

Office secretary, General Office of the State Council

Office secretary, General Office of the Central Military Commission (active duty)

1975 - 1979

Studied basic organic synthesis at Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University

1969 - 1975

Educated youth and Party branch secretary, Liangjiahe Brigade, Wen'anyi Commune, Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province

Alternate member, 15th CPC Central Committee

Member, 16th through 19th CPC Central Committees

Member, Political Bureau and its Standing Committee, and Secretariat, 17th CPC Central Committee

Member, Political Bureau and its Standing Committee, and General Secretary, 18th and 19th CPC Central Committees

Elected PRC Vice President at the First Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC)

Appointed CPC Central Military Commission Vice Chairman at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee

Appointed PRC Central Military Commission Vice Chairman at the 17th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th NPC

Appointed CPC Central Military Commission Chairman at the First Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee

Elected PRC President and PRC Central Military Commission Chairman at the First Session of the 12th NPC

Appointed CPC Central Military Commission Chairman at the First Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee