Xi Jinping

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Xi Jinping (Chinese: 习近平; 1953—) is the current Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee, therefore the number one figure in Zhejiang, and the Chairman of the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress.

Xi Jinping is considered by many to be an emerging figure, open to serious dialogue about political reform. Born in 1953, he is the son of Xi Zhongxun (1913-2002), one of the founders of the Communist guerrilla movement in northern China. His father welcomed Mao to Yan'an in 1935, at the end of the Long March, was imprisoned by him during a purge at the Communist base in the early 1940s, was purged again during the Cultural Revolution, yet rose to be a member of the Politburo under Deng Xiaoping. In 1986-87, he was its only member to stand up for the political reformer Hu Yaobang, when he came under attack. The younger Xi has won his spurs as the governor of Fujian, since 2000, where he has laboured to make the province attractive to Taiwanese investors and to foster a market economy.

Xi Jinping is a native of Fuping, Shaanxi. He joined the CYLC in 1971 and joined the CPC in 1974. Xi has served in four provinces during his government and Party career: Shaanxi, Hebei, Fujian and Zhejiang. He has held Party positions in the CPC Fuzhou City Committee, and in 1990 he became president of the Party school in Fuzhou City. In 1999 he was elected vice-governor of Fujian province, then governor a year later. In 2002 he took up senior government and Party positions in Zhejiang Province.

Xi Jinping was an alternate member of the 15th CPC Central Committee and is a member of the 16th CPC Central Committee.

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http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/19/news/international/bc.economy.paulson.china.reut/index.htm?postversion=2006091907 excerpt from CNN: Yuan-way ticket: Paulson goes to China Treasury Secretary hopes to nudge trading partner on currency's trade influence. September 19 2006: 7:56 AM EDT

HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) -- Aiming to praise China's progress and to prod it towards more cooperation on global economic issues, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson launched a four-day official visit on Tuesday during which he hopes to nudge Beijing on letting its currency rise in value.

The former Goldman Sachs chairman, on his first trip to Asia as U.S. Treasury chief, flew from Singapore to Hangzhou to begin his visit in region that is a Chinese economic powerhouse and to meet Zhejiang provincial Communist Party secretary Xi Jinping, whom Paulson regards as a friend and rising political star. paulson_henry_treasury.gi.03.jpg Treasury Secretary on a currency mission.

http://es.news.yahoo.com/08102006/24/foto/secretary-of-the-treasury-henry-paulson-left-and-xi-jinping.html excerpts from Yahoo:

8 de octubre de 2006, 12h15 Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, left, and Xi Jinping, Zhejiang Province Communist Party Secretary, right, chat at an old pavillion Tuesday Sept. 19, 2006 in Hangzhou, China. When it comes to treasury secretaries, President Bush may find that the third time is the charm. His latest - former Goldman Sachs chief executive Henry Paulson - has sent a strong signal in his first three months that the Treasury Department once again is a player. Paulson has staked out U.S.-China relations as his special prerogative. He also plans to tackle the government's biggest budget headaches - Social Security and Medicare. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2006-09-22-paulson-cover-usat_x.htm excerpt from USA Today: The Treasury chief's plain-spoken conversations with Chinese officials are littered with football references befitting a former Dartmouth College offensive lineman. After meeting Zhejiang Party Secretary Xi Jinping on Wednesday, Paulson pronounced him "the kind of guy who knows how to get things over the goal line." Of feisty Vice Premier Wu Yi, he said: "She comes to play every day."

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0bc62de4-4766-11db-83df-0000779e2340.html excerpt from Financial Times: Mr Paulson will open his trip with an unusual gesture when he visits Xi Jinping, the party secretary of fast-growing Zhejiang province, a rising star associated with the technocratic wing of China’s Communist party, in Hangzhou.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6ae94fd2-4837-11db-a42e-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=f6e7043e-6d68-11da-a4df-0000779e2340.html excerpt from Financial Times: When Gao Shangquan, a retired senior official, marshals his arguments in favour of deeper market reforms for China, he points to Zhejiang province, the country’s entrepreneurial heartland on the coast south of Shanghai.

Zhejiang’s private businesses have driven one of the most sustained economic expansions in recent history, with output rising at an average of 13 per cent a year since 1979, four points ahead of the national rate.

“I hope today’s Zhejiang will become tomorrow’s China,” says Mr Gao, a former deputy chief of China’s defunct planning ministry. “What’s wrong with everyone in China becoming rich?”

Mr Gao’s rhetoric about wealth-for-all has struggled to be heard in China over the past year, with top-level policymakers increasingly immobilised on a range of fronts by a backlash against market economics.

But it chimes perfectly with the message of Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, who flew into Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang, on Tuesday on the opening stop of his first trip to China in his new job. On Wednesday, Mr Paulson flies on to Beijing, where, unusually for a Treasury secretary, he will meet Hu Jintao, China’s president.

Mr Paulson has made a conscious decision to identify himself publicly with the pro-market reform camp during his visit, praising Xi Jinping, the Zhejiang party secretary and a rising star of Chinese politics, as “very smart” and “commercial”.

“He is the kind of guy who really knows how to get over the goal line, how to get things done,” he added.

The two met in Hangzhou’s West Lake guesthouse, a greened sanctuary where Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai drafted one of the communiqués that began the process of normalising relations between the US and China in 1972.

Later, Mr Paulson hosted a dinner for about a dozen local businessmen, part of the army of entrepreneurs who have given Hangzhou one of the largest private-sector economies in China.

The former Goldman Sachs banker said he had asked Mr Xi why there were “so many strong entrepreneurs here” and had been told “this area is not rich in natural resources, so the people had to be very commercial and entrepreneurial and live with their energy and their innovation”.

By picking Hangzhou as his first port of call and his only stop other than Beijing, Mr Paulson sent a signal as to where he thinks the future of China lies – in a private-sector led economy, with can-do government and respect for its environment.

Mr Gao, in an interview before Mr Paulson’s trip had been announced, suggested a more subtle, Chinese-style approach to guiding pro-market policies through a political system that still calls itself socialist.

The former official said that new policies needed to be branded in a way that made them politically palatable.

The slogan that he had created to promote his cause was to call the reform camp’s programme “people’s socialism”, which he said was both accurate and politically correct.

“In the old days, the government created the wealth and the people followed. Now the public want to do things for themselves,” he said. “And if the people get rich, the government will get more taxes.”

“We have to drive home the message that the only solution to the problems of reform is more reform.”

Mr Gao put himself at the centre of the economic debate in April, organising a private meeting of like-minded academics and officials to discuss obstacles to further market reforms to state and party control of the economy.

Far from giving his cause momentum, Mr Gao was forced on the defensive when the contents of the discussion, known as the “west hill” meeting, were posted on the internet by leftwingers hoping to embarrass participants who had criticised the Communist party.

But over the last month, the reformist camp has scored a number of notable victories, with the passage of long-awaited bankruptcy regulations and, more significantly, approval of a draft property law.

The property law was delayed at the February meeting of the National People’s Congress after a prominent law professor raised concerns that it could facilitate the theft of state property.

The latest draft makes a rhetorical gesture to such complaints, saying that private and public property will have equal status, while suggesting that theft of state assets will be considered the “gravest violation”.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/19/business/AS_FIN_ECO_China_US_Paulson.php excerpt from Herald Tribune: In Hangzhou, Paulson had dinner with Xi Jinping, a rising Communist Party star whom he came to know in his former post as chairman of investment bank Goldman Sachs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091900446.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091900176.html excerpt from Washington Post: In Hangzhou, Paulson had dinner with Xi Jinping, a rising Communist Party star whom he knows from his dozens of visits to China while at Goldman Sachs.

http://www.townhall.com/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ContentGuid=abf54875-a016-4c85-9832-06514b15cf3c excerpts from: In a sign of the trip's importance to the U.S., Paulson is traveling as a special representative of U.S. President George W. Bush, in addition to his treasury portfolio.

Paulson's meeting with Xi, a provincial Communist Party secretary, took on unusual significance because Xi _ the son of a leading figure in the 1949 communist revolution _ is regarded as a potential member of the next generation of Chinese leaders.

They met at a guesthouse where U.S. and Chinese officials drafted the 1972 communique signed by then-President Richard Nixon and then-Premier Zhou Enlai that led to the opening of diplomatic relations.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=12773&R=EE4C139 excerpts from: Before arriving in Beijing, Paulson made a stop in Hangzhou to meet with Xi Jinping, the party secretary of Zhejiang Province. While Xi Jinping is not yet a household name in the United States, he has been identified by China-watchers as a probable member of China's future senior leadership. Xi Jinping's experience leading Zhejiang Province, which has become one of China's three wealthiest (due in large part to the success of its highly developed private sector economy) makes him a natural ally of the United States.

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http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/subscriber/newsdetail/7908.html excerpt from: US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson arrived in China Tuesday for a trip that has attracted considerable political interest in Washington amid concerns over China's trade surplus and undervalued currency, AP reported. His first stop was Hangzhou for a meeting with Xi Jinping, Communist Party secretary for Zhejiang province and a friend of Paulson's from his frequent visits to China as chairman of Goldman Sachs. He will travel to Beijing on Wednesday, where he has appointments with officials including Vice Premier Wu Yi and Finance Minister Jin Renqing. Paulson has already made it clear that he is looking to work with China on its long-term reform plan and isn't looking for "quick fixes" on any issue. Washington is keen for Paulson to elicit promises from Beijing on currency reform and assistance in restarting the Doha round of WTO talks aimed at removing barriers to global commerce.

Xi Jinping Elected Acting Governor of Zhejiang Xi Jinping was elected acting governor of Zhejiang Province in east China at the 38th session of the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress Saturday.

Xi Jinping was elected acting governor of Zhejiang Province in east China at the 38th session of the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress Saturday.

The meeting also accepted the resignation of Zhejiang's former governor Chai Songyue, who will be given a new appointment by the central government.

Xi Jinping was born in Beijing in June, 1953, and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1974. He graduated from the Chemical Engineering Department of Qinghua University.

Serving in official posts in Fujian Province over the past years, he was made deputy secretary of CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and acting governor of Fujian in August, 1999, and then become deputy secretary of CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and governor of Fujian in January, 2000.

http://english.people.com.cn/200210/13/eng20021013_104967.shtml

Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Zhejiang Provincial Committee, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang People's Congress

Xi Jinping, a native of Fuping, Shaanxi Province, was born in June 1953. He began to work in January 1969 and joined the CPC in January 1974. He graduated from a regular program at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University and an on-the-job postgraduate program at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the same university. He holds a doctoral degree in law.

Before September 1993, he successively served as secretary of the CPC Committee of Zhengding County, Hebei Province, vice mayor of Xiamen City and a member of the CPC Xiamen Municipal Committee, secretary of the Ningde Prefectural Committee, secretary of the CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fuzhou People's Congress.

Sept. 1993-Oct. 1995: Standing member of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee, secretary of the CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fuzhou People's Congress.

Oct. 1995-Aug. 1999: Vice secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee, secretary of the CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fuzhou People's Congress.

Aug. 1999-Jan. 2000: Vice secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee, vice governor of Fujian Province and acting governor of Fujian Province.

Jan. 2000-Nov. 2002: Governor of Fujian Province and vice secretary of CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee, vice governor and acting governor of Zhejiang Province.

Nov. 2002-Jan. 2003: Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee.

Jan. 2003-: Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang People's Congress

He was an alternate member of the 15th CPC Central Committee and now is a member of the 16th CPC Central Committee.

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Xi Jinping, son: http://www.chinavitae.com/biography_display.php?id=303

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more links on Xi Zhongxun and his son Xi JinPing:

english.epochtimes.com/news/5-2-6/26291.html

Association for Asia Research- Who will succeed Wen Jiabao? Bo Xilai, 56, is the son of CCP old guard Bo Yibo; Xi Jinping, 52, is the son of Xi Zhongxun, former Vice Chair of the National People’s Congress from 1988 to 1993; Wang Qishan, 57, is the son-in-law of Yao Yilin, former Vice Premier of ... www.asianresearch.org/articles/2719.html

www.szlib.gov.cn/hh20/english/photoalbum/pages/025_jpg.htm news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-02/26/content_2617047.htm

Xi JinPing's wife, Peng LiYuan, is a beautiful and popular folk singer attached to the PLA General Political Department's song and dance troupe, her biographical material is available at

www.chinatv-net.com/all/compere/gx-pengliyuan/ply.htm.

Xi JinPing is the third child of Xi Zhongxun and Qi Xin. They had four children, Xi Jiao Jiao, Xi An An, Xi JinPing, and Xi YuanPing (in chronological birth order).

Other family members: Grandchildren from Qi Xin: Zhang Yenan, Wu Xiao (Hiu Ng), Wu Lafei, Xi Minze, Xi Minzhen, Xi Minzhi.

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http://www.boston.com/business/markets/articles/2006/09/19/us_treasury_chief_paulson_vists_china/ excerpt: His meeting with Xi, a provincial Communist Party secretary, took on unusual significance because Xi -- the son of Xi Zhongxun, a leading figure in the 1949 communist revolution -- is regarded as a potential member of the next generation of Chinese leaders.

"He's the kind of guy who really knows how to get over the goal line," Paulson said of Xi, who has strongly promoted private business in Zhejiang, one of China's most prosperous and entrepreneurial provinces.

http://www.corzinewatch.com/category/china/ The man shaking hands with Governor Corzine is Xi Jinping. He is the son of *Xi Zhongxun <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Zhongxun>*, who was one of the founders of the Communist guerilla armies in northern China and later became chief secretary to the cabinet under Mao. The Xi family is one of the most powerful families in China, with all six sons and daughters of Xi Zhongxun holding *prominent positions <http://www.chinavitae.com/reference/index.php?file=prominent-families.html>* in the country. In 2002, *Xi Jinping <http://www.china.org.cn/english/MATERIAL/76256.htm>* became acting governor of the Zhejiang Province. In January of 2003, Xi Jinping rose further up the ranks and became Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang’s People’s Congress.

http://www.austhink.org/monk/china_children.htm An emerging figure who surely will be open to serious dialogue about political reform is Xi Jinping. Born in 1953, he is the son of Xi Zhongxun (1913-2002), one of the founders of the Communist guerrilla movement in north China. His father welcomed Mao to Yan’an in 1935, at the end of the Long March, was imprisoned by him during a purge at the Communist base in the early 1940s, was purged again during the Cultural Revolution, yet rose to be a member of the Politburo under Deng Xiaoping. In 1986-87, he was its only member to stand up for the political reformer Hu Yaobang, when he came under attack.[xvii] <http://www.austhink.org/monk/china_children.htm#_edn17> The younger Xi has won his spurs as the governor of Fujian, since 2000, where he has laboured to make the province attractive to Taiwanese investors and to foster a market economy.

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http://www.bjpiano.com/e-child3.htm blind little girl's efforts to be admitted to school: *Yet I did not relax. I heard in the news broadcast that a leading member of our national government Grandfather Xi Zhongxun was making investigations in some universities. I thought he must be concerned with educational affairs. So I wrote a letter in apple size characters to Grandpa Xi, begging him to help me enter a school. In a few days, his secretary sent me a reply saying my eager hope for school entrance really moved them. They had written a letter to the school. There would be no doubt about my entrance for study at the school next year.*

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