His entourage includes Professor Peng Liyuan, comrade Xi Jinping’s spouse; Cai Qi, member of the Politburo Standing Committee, Secretary of the CPC Central Committee’s Secretariat and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee; Politburo member, Director of the CPC Central Committee’s Foreign Affairs Commission Office and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi; Secretary of the CPC Central Committee’s Secretariat, State Councillor, Deputy Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong; Member of the CPC Central Committee and Head of the International Liaison Commission Liu Jianchao; Director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee Jiang Jinquan; Member of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Zheng Shanjie; Member of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao; Liu Ning, Member of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; Member of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Yunnan provincial Party Committee Wang Ning; Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Xiong Bo; Director of the International Development Cooperation Agency of China Luo Zhaohui; Head of the Office for International Military Cooperation of the Central Military Commission, Major General Libin; and Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Nong Rong.
General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping was born in 1953 in Fuping County, Shaanxi Province, China. He joined the Communist Party of China in January 1974. Comrade Xi Jinping was a graduate student in Marxist-Leninist theoretical and political studies at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University. He also had a degree in a Doctor of Law and chemical engineering.
General Secretary and President Xi Jinping has gone through a long process of studying and hold many positions.
He became a member of Politburo Standing Committee, Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat and President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee from 2007 to 2008. He was Vice President of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee between 2008 and 2010. From 2010 to 2012, he was Vice President of the PRC, Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat, Vice chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the PRC and President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
Xi was a member of Politburo Standing Committee, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, Vice President of the PRC and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the PRC between 2012 and 2013. Since 2013, he has served as member of the Politburo Standing Committee, General Secretary of the CPC, Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, President of the PRC and Chairman of the PRC Central Military Commission.
President Xi was an alternate member of the 15th CPC Central Committee, a member of the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th CPC Central Committee, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo Bureau of the CPC Central Committee for the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th tenures.
