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Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Xi has also served as the president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 2013. The son of Chinese Communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, Xi was exiled to rural Yanchuan County as a teenager following his father's purge during the Cultural Revolution. He lived in a yaodong in the village of Liangjiahe, Shaanxi province, where he joined the CCP after several failed attempts and worked as the local party secretary. After studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University as a worker-peasant-soldier student, Xi rose through the ranks politically in China's coastal provinces. Xi was governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002, before becoming governor and party secretary of neighboring Zhejiang from 2002 to 2007. Following dismis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi (surname)
__NOTOC__ Xi ( ; ) is the romanization in Pinyin of several different Chinese family names, including: * (; see Chinese Wikipedia article) * (; see Chinese Wikipedia article) * (; see Chinese Wikipedia article) * (; see Chinese Wikipedia article) This is the most common surname romanized "Xi", making up approximately 0.01% of the population of Mainland China. * ( * (; see Chinese Wikipedia article) * (; see Chinese Wikipedia article) Xi is spelled "Hsi" in Wade-Giles. People 奚 It is the 45th name in the '' Hundred Family Surnames'' poem written during the Song dynasty, around 1000 years ago. *Ming Xi (; born 1990), Chinese fashion model * Xi Aihua (; born 1982), Chinese rower *Xi Xiaoming (; born 1954), Chinese judge 席 It is the 133rd name in the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem. During the Chu–Han Contention, many people surnamed Ji () changed their surname to Xi () because of naming taboo of Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, whose given name was Ji () ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang, and, in 1949, Mao proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Since then, the CCP has governed China with eight smaller parties within its United Front and has sole control over the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Each successive leader of the CCP has added their own theories to the party's constitution, which outlines the ideological beliefs of the party, collectively referred to as socialism with Chinese characteristics. As of 2022, the CCP has more than 96 million members, making it the second largest political party by party membership in the world after India's Bharatiya Janata Party. The Chinese public generally refers to the CCP as simply "the Party". In 1921, Chen Duxiu an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi Zhongxun
Xi Zhongxun (15 October 1913 – 24 May 2002) was a Chinese communist revolutionary and a subsequent political official in the People's Republic of China. He is considered to be among the first and second generation of Chinese leadership. The contributions he made to the Chinese communist revolution and the development of the People's Republic, from the founding of Communist guerrilla bases in northwestern China in the 1930s to initiation of economic liberalization in southern China in the 1980s, are numerous and broad. He was known for political moderation and for the setbacks he endured in his career. He was imprisoned and purged several times. His second son is the current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping. Early life and education Xi was born on 15 October 1913, to a land-owning family, in rural Fuping County, Shaanxi. He joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in May 1926 and took part in student demonstrations in the spring of 1928 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Of Law
A Doctor of Law is a degree in law. The application of the term varies from country to country and includes degrees such as the Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D. or S.J.D), Juris Doctor (J.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and Legum Doctor (LL.D.). By country Argentina In Argentina the Doctor of Laws or Doctor of Juridical Sciences is the highest academic qualification in the field of ''Jurisprudence''. To obtain the doctoral degree the applicant must have previously achieved, at least the undergraduate degree of Attorney. (Título de Abogado). The doctorates in Jurisprudence in Argentina might have different denominations as is described as follow: * Doctorate in Law (Offered by the University of Buenos Aires, NU of the L, and NU of R) * Doctorate in Criminal Law * Doctorate in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences * Doctorate in Juridical Sciences * Doctorate in Juridical and Social Sciences (Offered by the NU of C) * Doctorate in Private Law (Offered by the NU of T) * Doct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University (; abbr. THU) is a national public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. The university is a member of the C9 League, Double First Class University Plan, Project 985, and Project 211. Since its establishment in 1911, it has produced many notable leaders in science, engineering, politics, business, academia, and culture. As of 2022, Tsinghua University ranked 14th in the world by the 2023 QS World University Rankings and 16th globally by the 2022 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings''. In 2021, Tsinghua ranked first in the Asia-Pacific region by '' THE Asia University Rankings'' and the ''U.S. News & World Report''. History Early 20th century (1911–1949) Tsinghua University was established in Beijing during a tumultuous period of national upheaval and conflicts with foreign powers which culminated in the Boxer Rebellion, an uprising against foreign influence in Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing 101 Middle School
Beijing 101 Middle School () is a public coeducational secondary school in Haidian, Beijing. It offers programs from grades 7 to 12. It is one of the beacon high schools accredited by Beijing Municipal Government. It has two affiliated schools. Campus Beijing 101 Middle School is renowned for its study environment. Its 200,000 square meter campus is surrounded by the Old Summer Palace, one of China's most splendid imperial palaces. Dozens of ponds dot the whole campus. 13,000 square meters of 101 are covered by water. Peking University and Tsinghua University, known as the best two universities in mainland China, are both within half a mile. The school has undergone reconstruction work since 2005. The school's academic facilities include a library housing 100,000 books and magazines, an electronic library, 100 classrooms with multi-media equipment, a lecture hall, a 700-people auditorium, an information center, a 300 m2 greenhouse supported by NASA and China Space Center. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing Bayi School
Beijing Bayi School (), also known as the August 1st School, is a public elementary through high school with three campuses in Haidian District, Beijing. Tetsushi Takahashi of '' Nikkei Shimbun'' wrote that Beijing Bayi School is "prestigious". Evan Osnos of ''New Yorker'' wrote that the "exclusive" Beijing Bayi School was known as the "cradle of leaders" (). - The article refers to the school as the "August 1st School". History Nie Rongzhen established the school in 1947. Campuses The school has three campuses: Main, North, and Elementary. The original campus was in a building that previously functioned as a residence for a prince who lived in the Qing Dynasty. It is about north of Zhongnanhai, the residential facility for the top leadership of China. Student body and student culture Takahashi stated that in the era prior to the Cultural Revolution, descendants of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, known as "second-generation reds", were enrolled at Beijing Bayi S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhongnanhai
Zhongnanhai () is a former imperial garden in the Imperial City, Beijing, adjacent to the Forbidden City; it serves as the central headquarters for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the State Council (central government) of China. Zhongnanhai houses the office of the CCP General Secretary ( paramount leader) and office of the Chinese Premier. The term ''Zhongnanhai'' is closely linked with the central government and senior CCP officials. It is often used as a metonym for the Chinese leadership at large (in the same sense that the terms "White House" refers to the U.S. executive branch, "Raisina Hill" for the Indian government, " Downing Street" and “ Whitehall” for the British government, and " Kremlin" used by the Russian government). The state leaders, including Xi Jinping, current general secretary of the CCP, and other top CCP and PRC leadership figures carry out many of their day-to-day administrative activities inside the compound, such as meetings with for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi Mingze
Xi Mingze (; ; born 25 June 1992), nicknamed Xiao Muzi (), is the only child of General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping and operatic-style traditional singer Peng Liyuan. Early life and education Xi Mingze was born on 25 June 1992 at Fuzhou Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital in Fuzhou. She is the only child of Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan. Xi keeps a low profile, and not much of her personal information has been revealed to the public. From 2006 to 2008, she studied French at her high school, Hangzhou Foreign Language School. Xi enrolled in Harvard University in the US in 2010, after a year of undergraduate study at Zhejiang University. She enrolled under a pseudonym,Andrew Jacobs and Dan LevinSon's Parties and Privilege Aggravate Fall of Elite Chinese Family, ''New York Times'', 16 April 2012. and maintained a low profile. In 2014, she graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and was thought to have returned to Beijing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peng Liyuan
Peng Liyuan (; born 20 November 1962) is a Chinese soprano and contemporary folk singer and the spouse of Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the People's Republic of China. Peng gained popularity as a singer from her regular appearances on the annual CCTV New Year's Gala, a widely viewed Chinese television program that airs during the Chinese New Year. She won honors in singing competitions nationwide. Her most famous singles include《父老乡亲》("People from Our Village"),《珠穆朗玛》(" Zhumulangma"), and《在希望的田野上》("In the Field of Hope"). Peng also sang the theme songs of several popular TV series, such as '' The Water Margin'' (1998). She also starred in musical productions. In 1986, she received the Plum Blossom Award, China's highest theatrical award, for her lead role in '' The White Haired Girl''. She was the president of then People's Liberation Army Academy of Art between 2012 and 2017, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ke Lingling
Ke Lingling (born 1951; zh, c=柯玲玲, p=kē líng líng; also known as Ke Xiaoming ()) is the ex-wife of Xi Jinping, who is now the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and known as the paramount leader. She is from Puning, Guangdong, and is the daughter of former Chinese diplomat Ke Hua. Personal life In 1979, Ke Lingling married Xi Jinping, but their life philosophy differed. Ke wanted to move to the UK, where her father at this time served as ambassador, but Xi refused to accompany her. In 1982 they divorce Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union. Divorce usually entails the canceling or reorganizing of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving th ...d, ending three years of marriage; they had no children. After they divorced, Ke immigrated to the UK. Notes References {{Authority control Chaoshanese people Chinese emigrants to the United Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geng Biao
Geng Biao (; 26 August 1909 – 23 June 2000) was a senior official in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and a leader in Chinese politics, foreign relations and military. Early life Geng was born in Liling, Hunan Province of China. In 1922, Geng was a child worker in a lead-zinc mine in Shuikoushan, south of Hengyang City in China. Geng joined the Communist Youth League of China in Shuikoushan in 1925. In 1926, he led a miners' military campaign and failed. He then organized and led a militia in Liuyang in 1928. In August of the same year, he joined CCP. Military career Red Army In September 1930, his forces merged into the Third Corps of the Red Army's First Army Group and he became the staff of 9th division of Third Corps. In 1933, he became the head of the 4th regiment, 2nd division of the Red First Front Army. On 10 October 1934, he embarked on the Long March as the pioneer of 2nd division and, in the beginning of 1935, seized a critical military fortress at Lousha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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