Xi Zhongxun
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Xi Zhongxun (Simplified Chinese: 习仲勋, Traditional Chinese:習仲勛, Pinyin:xí zhòngxūn, 1913-May 24, 2002) was a communist revolutionary and a State Councilor of the People's Republic of China. He is considered to be in generations of Chinese leadership as the first generation.
Born in a land-owning farm family in Fuping, Shaanxi, Xi joined the communist youth club in May 1926. He is one of the ten founding members of the Communist party in China. Xi was the first Deputy Prime Minister of China and he and other members of the founding members of China such as Deng Xiaoping worked with Mao Ze Dong, President Liu Shaoqi and Premier Zhou Enlai. He made two major contributions to China, one as the man who incubated future leaders for China such as Hu Jin Tao, Wen Jia Bao and, two as the man who proposed and implemented the very first economic zone in China (Shenzhen Economic Zone) which later was used as the model standard for the other economic zones. He was remembered for his friendship to his colleagues, his tolerance to diverse cultures and religions, his idealism of an open market socialist country and his integrity to his beliefs. He was one of the few upper level leader who voted during the 80s for open reform and got persecuted afterwards for this bold move.
His famous lines include, "We need to reform China and implement this economic zone even if it means that we have to pave a bloody road ahead and I am to be responsible for it." which he uttered to Deng XiaoPing when trying to convince Deng of the necessity of market socialism in China.
Direct quote from China's New Rulers: The Secret Files' '...Xi Zhongxun (1913-2002), one of the founders of the Communist guerilla armies of north China. When Mao and his troops fled to northwest China on the Long March in the mid-1930s, it was Xi Zhongxun who welcomed them to their new base in and around Yan'an. Xi was briefly jailed during an inner-Party factional struggle at that time, but was soon released and went on to a series of high offices in the reveolutionary movement and the new Communist regime. Xi JinPing was born into the privileged environment of high Beijing officialdom in 1953, when his father was chief secretary to the cabinet. Modest Xi JinPing during his whole career until now has avoided as much as possible to be considered for special favours in regards to gaining positions in the government simply because he is part of the Crown Prince Party. The elder Xi was known amongst his colleagues to be very strict in this regards.
Xi was purged a second time in 1962, accused by Mao of involvement of anti-Party plot. (Mao accused Xi Zhongxun of sponsoring publicaiton of a novel about his old superior in the 1930s, Liu Zhidan, as a way of trying to rehabilitate the reputation of another former colleague who had been purged in the mid-1950s, Gao Gang. It was in this connection that Mao uttered one of his more famous sentences: "Using novels to carry out anti-Party activities is a great discovery." Mao's purge of Xi in 1962 was a precursor of the Cultural Revolution, which he launched in 1966.) Xi Zhongxun was sent to work in a factory in central China, tortured during the Cultural Revolution, and then placed under house arrest in Beijing for another ten years, until 1977. Xi JinPing (Xi Zhongxun's third child) was widely liked by a broad cross-section of the old PBSC, including Zhu Rongji, Li Peng, and Li Ruihuan. Even though Xi was one of the provincial leaders least enthusiastic about the Three Stresses campaign, Jiang Zemin also supported his rise due to Xi's brilliance with the people and his work.'
Xi Zhongxun married Qi Xin, his second wife, and had four children: Xi QiaoQiao, Xi AnAn, Xi JinPing, and Xi YuanPing.
He has six grandchildren from Qi Xin.
some info on the family: 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: A few days later, I heard in a news broadcast about the China Disabled Persons' Federation. The president of that federation is Uncle Deng Pufang. I asked Grandma: "Do you think if Uncle Deng could help me to study in a school or not?" Grandma thought I could go and try. She found the address of the federation for me, but again insisted I must go and try myself. There was nothing else I could do. So I spent more than half a day to find it. Unfortunately Uncle Yu, the janitor said: "Uncle Deng is away." "Well, I'll come again tomorrow." I went there successively for three days. On the third day, UncleYu could not stop to ask me: "What do you want on earth to see him?" I told him that I would ask Uncle Deng to get in contact with the School for the Blind in order to help me enter and study at the school. UncleYu smiled and told me that Uncle Deng could not see me, but he introduced me to an aunt named Yang Wenjuan. Aunt Yang heard that I came all by myself. She thought it wonderful for a child of my age daring to approach Deng for help. A child like this could no doubt win a bright future. So she immediately wrote a letter to the school and assured me there would be no more difficulty left. I could enter the school next year. I returned home with joy to tell Grandma. Once more I tasted the success won through enough effort. 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.
[edit] Bibliography
- China's New Rulers: The Secret File, Andrew J. Nathan and Bruce Gilley, The New York Review Book
- The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. 3 : The COming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966 (Columbia University Press, 1997)
