Xi Jinping happens to be the current President of China. He is also the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and is also the Chairman of the Central Military Commission. He has been in this position since 2012.
He was born on June 15, 1953, in Beijing, China to parents Xi Zhongxun and Qi Xin. Xi Jinping attended the Beijing No. 25 School and then Beijing Bayi School in the 1960s. When he was 10 years old, his father was sent to work in a factory in Luoyang, Henan.
In 1966, the Cultural Revolution stopped all secondary classes as they wanted students to criticise and fight their teachers. Student militants ransacked Xi Jinping’s family home and one of his sisters ended up committing suicide. His mother was also forced to publicly denounce his father, as his father was paraded before a crowd as an enemy of the revolution.
His father was imprisoned in 1968 and as his father was not present to protect him, he was sent to work in Liangjiahe Village. He finally reunited with his father in 1972 after Premier Zhou Enlai ordered a family reunion for prisoners.
Xi started applying to join the CCP in 1973. He applied about ten times before he was finally accepted in 1974. He studied chemical engineering at Tsinghua University as a “Worker-Peasant-Soldier student” in Beijing.
Xi Jinping Net Worth 2022
Xi Jinping’s net worth for 2022 has been estimated to be $1.2 billion.
