1. Xi Zhongxun was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician who played a significant role in the history of the People's Republic of China.
15 Facts About Xi Zhongxun
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Xi Zhongxun served as the first Secretary General of the State Council from 1954 to 1965, Vice Premier of the State Council from 1959 to 1965, Party Secretary of Guangdong from 1978 to 1980, and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1980 to 1983 and again from 1988 to 1993.
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Xi Zhongxun was the father of Xi Jinping, the current President of the People's Republic of China.
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Xi Zhongxun's contributions spanned from establishing Communist guerrilla bases in northwestern China in the 1930s to pioneering economic liberalization in southern China in the 1980s.
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Xi Zhongxun's parents, Xi Zongde and Chai Caihua, died when he was a teenager.
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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.
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Xi Zhongxun was known for evaluating policies based on empirical assessment and resisting "leftist" extremism in implementing party directives.
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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.
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Xi Zhongxun released captured tribesmen, offered generous terms to Xiang Qian and forgave those who took part in the uprising.
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In September 1952, Xi Zhongxun became chief of the party's propaganda department and supervised cultural and education policies.
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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.
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Xi Zhongxun regained his freedom in May 1975 and was assigned to another factory in Luoyang.
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Xi Zhongxun attended the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic of China in Beijing in October 1999.
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In 1944, Xi Zhongxun married Qi Xin, his second wife, and had four children: Qi Qiaoqiao, Xi An'an, Xi Jinping and Xi Yuanping.
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Xi Zhongxun's ashes were subsequently buried at a cemetery named in honor of him at Fuping County.