54 Facts About President Xi

President Xi 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.

President Xi subsequently joined the Politburo Standing Committee of the CCP the same year and served as first secretary of the Central Secretariat in October 2007.

In 2008, he was designated as Hu Jintao's presumed successor as paramount leader; to that end, Xi was appointed vice president of the PRC and vice chairman of the CMC.

President Xi officially received the title of leadership core from the CCP in 2016.

President Xi has enacted or promoted a more aggressive foreign policy, particularly with regard to China's relations with the US, the nine-dash line in the South China Sea, the Sino-Indian border dispute, and the political status of Taiwan.

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President Xi has sought to expand China's African and Eurasian influence through the Belt and Road Initiative.

President Xi has promoted "common prosperity", a series of policies designed with stated goal to increase equality, and used the term to justify a broad crackdown and major slew of regulations against the tech and tutoring sectors in 2021.

President Xi met with Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou in 2015, the first time PRC and Republic of China leaders met, though relations deteriorated after the Democratic Progressive Party won the presidential elections in 2016.

President Xi has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China with a zero-COVID approach and has overseen the passage of a national security law in Hong Kong, dramatically increasing the clampdown on the opposition in the city.

President Xi became friends with Liu He, who attended Beijing No 101 School in the same district, who later became China's vice-premier and a close advisor to Xi after he became China's paramount leader.

President Xi's father was later imprisoned in 1968 when Xi was aged 15.

President Xi worked as the party secretary of Liangjiahe, where he lived in a cave house.

President Xi was arrested during a crackdown on deserters from the countryside and sent to a work camp to dig ditches, but later returned to the village, spending a total of seven years there.

President Xi reunited with his father in 1972, because of a family reunion ordered by premier Zhou Enlai.

President Xi was promoted in 1983 to secretary, becoming the top official of the county.

President Xi eventually took over as provincial Party Committee secretary after several months as acting governor, occupying a top provincial office for the first time in his career.

President Xi pledged there would be no 'purges' during his administration, despite the fact many local officials were thought to have been implicated in the Chen Liangyu corruption scandal.

President Xi was ranked above Li Keqiang, an indication that he was going to succeed Hu Jintao as China's next leader.

President Xi was put in charge of the comprehensive preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, as well as being the central government's leading figure in Hong Kong and Macau affairs.

President Xi made his first foreign trip as vice president to North Korea, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Yemen from 17 to 25 June 2008.

President Xi was reportedly at the helm of a top-level CCP committee dubbed the 6521 Project, which was charged with ensuring social stability during a series of politically sensitive anniversaries in 2009.

In February 2009, in his capacity as vice-president, Xi Jinping embarked on a tour of Latin America, visiting Mexico, Jamaica, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, and Malta, after which he returned to China.

President Xi visited Japan, South Korea, Cambodia, and Myanmar on his Asian trip from 14 to 22 December 2009.

President Xi later visited the United States, Ireland and Turkey in February 2012.

President Xi travelled in a large van with his colleagues rather than a fleet of limousines, and did not restrict traffic on the parts of the highway he travelled.

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President Xi received 2,952 for, one vote against, and three abstentions.

President Xi replaced Hu Jintao, who retired after serving two terms.

President Xi's administration has overseen more Internet restrictions imposed in China, and is described as being "stricter across the board" on speech than previous administrations.

President Xi has centralised his power and created working groups with himself at the head to subvert government bureaucracy, making himself become the unmistakable central figure of the new administration.

However, Xi did not say whether he intended to serve as party general secretary, CMC chairman and state president, for three or more terms.

President Xi has increased the role of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission at the expense of the State Council.

President Xi's administration made it easier for banks to issue mortgages, increased foreign participation in the bond market, and increased country's currency renminbi's global role, helping it to join IMF's basket of special drawing right.

President Xi described common prosperity as affluence for all, rather than the few, while saying it's not egalitarianism.

President Xi has abolished the four autonomous general departments of the PLA, replacing them with 15 agencies directly reporting to the CMC.

President Xi has adopted a hawkish foreign policy posture called "wolf warrior diplomacy", while his foreign policy thoughts are collectively known as "Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy".

President Xi seems to have developed a strong personal relationship with president Vladimir Putin.

President Xi met with President Vladimir Putin and the two leaders discussed trade and energy issues.

President Xi then went on to Tanzania, South Africa, and the Republic of the Congo.

President Xi made a state visit to South Korea on 4 July 2014 and met with South Korean President Park Geun-hye.

President Xi went on a state visit to Australia and met with Prime Minister Tony Abbott in November 2014, followed by a visit to the island nation of Fiji.

President Xi then headed to Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia, to attend the Afro-Asian Leaders Summit and the 60th Anniversary events of the Bandung Conference.

President Xi's visit was met by a considerable number of protests by Czechs.

On 17 January 2020, Xi visited Myanmar, meeting president Win Myint, state councillor Aung San Suu Kyi and military leader Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyidaw.

On 14 February 2022, Xi visited Astana, Kazakhstan, his first trip overseas since the start of the pandemic, meeting president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

President Xi presided over the 709 crackdown on 9 July 2015, which saw more than 200 lawyers, legal assistants and human rights activists being detained.

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President Xi's term has seen the arrest and imprisonment of activists such as Xu Zhiyong, as well as numerous others who identified with the New Citizens' Movement.

President Xi gave premier Li Keqiang some responsibility over the COVID-19 response, in what has been suggested by The Wall Street Journal was an attempt to potentially insulate himself from criticism if the response failed.

President Xi has called traditional culture the "soul" of the nation and the "foundation" of the CCP's culture.

President Xi has said that China, despite many setbacks, has achieved great progress under the CCP, saying that "socialism with Chinese characteristics has become the standard-bearer of 21st-century socialist development".

President Xi's Politburo Standing Committee colleagues, in their own reviews of Xi's keynote address at the Congress, prepended the name "Xi Jinping" in front of "Thought".

President Xi has pushed for the Greater Bay Area project, which aims to integrate Hong Kong, Macau, and nine other cities in Guangdong.

In 2015, Xi met with Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou, which marked the first time the political leaders of both sides of the Taiwan Strait have met since the end of the Chinese Civil War in Mainland China in 1950.

President Xi was described as a good hand at problem solving and "seemingly uninterested in the trappings of high office".

President Xi is known to love films and TV shows such as Saving Private Ryan, The Departed, The Godfather and Game of Thrones, praising the independent film-maker Jia Zhangke.