12 Facts About Xi Zhongxun

Xi Zhongxun was a Chinese communist revolutionary and a subsequent political official in the People's Republic of China.

Xi Zhongxun is considered to be among the first and second generation of Chinese leadership.

Xi Zhongxun was known for political moderation and for the setbacks he endured in his career.

Xi Zhongxun joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in May 1926 and took part in student demonstrations in the spring of 1928, for which he was imprisoned by the ruling nationalist authorities.

Xi Zhongxun was known for evaluating policies based on empirical assessment and resisting "leftist" extremism in implementing party directives.

In 1952, Xi Zhongxun halted the campaign of Wang Zhen and Deng Liqun to implement land reform and class struggle to pastoralist regions of Xinjiang.

Xi Zhongxun released captured tribesmen, offered generous terms to Xiang Qian and forgave those who took part in the uprising.

In September 1952, Xi Zhongxun became chief of the party's propaganda department and supervised cultural and education policies.

Xi Zhongxun was forced to undergo self-criticism and in 1965 was demoted to the position of a deputy manager of a tractor factory in Luoyang.

Xi Zhongxun regained his freedom in May 1975 and was assigned to another factory in Luoyang.

In 1944, Xi Zhongxun married Qi Xin, his second wife, and had four children: Qi Qiaoqiao, Xi An'an, Xi Jinping and Xi Yuanping.

Xi Zhongxun's ashes were subsequently buried at a cemetery named in honor of him at Fuping County.