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| Presently Held Posts of the "Xi Jinping" | |
|---|---|
| General Secretary of the CPC | (2012–present) |
| President of the PRC | (2013–present) |
| Member of the Politburo Standing Committee | (2007–present) |
| Chairman of the Central Military Commission | (2012–present) |
| Chairman of the National Security Committee | (2013–present) |
| Head of the Central Comprehensive Reform Committee | (2013–present) |
| Commander in Chief of the Joint Operations Command Center of the People's Liberation Army | (2016–present) |
| Full member of the Central Committee of the CPC | (2002–present) |
| Chairman of the Central Military and Civilian Integration Development Committee | (2017–present) |
The “Chinese Communist Party” (CCP), commonly referred to as the “Communist Party of China” (CPC), is the country’s main political organization. The Party assigns “administrative” duties to the government. Party rank “supersedes” government rank everywhere — at all levels and in all institutions.
As the party’s general secretary, the president of the state (or China), and the chairman of the “central military commission,” Xi Jinping possesses the three most important posts.
In the areas of “archaeology, intangible cultural resources, and cultural relics,” Xi has issued more than 170 important directives since 2012. Additionally, he has “inspected” more than 100 historical and cultural places in person.
Market-oriented reforms were introduced by Xi for “state-owned enterprises” (SOEs). As the first SOE in the telecom sector to allow private investment, China Unicom brought in 14 strategic investors in 2017 as part of the “mixed-ownership reform.” These investors included internet behemoths “Tencent, JD.com, Baidu, and Alibaba.” SOEs were transformed into limited liability companies or businesses limited by shares under a three-year action plan for “SOE reform.” A board of directors was established by about 38,000 SOEs.
China abolished the “reeducation-through-labor” program (which had been in place for more than 50 years) under Xi’s direction.
In order to lower the expense of patients, Xi argued for the complete abolition of “markups” on medications and medical supplies, which had been in existence for more than 60 years. After eight rounds of hard discussions with pharmaceutical companies, government representatives from the NHSA were able to lower the price of a “life-saving medicine” for a “rare condition” from around 700,000 yuan per shot to 33,000 yuan per shot in 2021. A total of 500 billion yuan in medical costs have been avoided by the public thanks to similar price reductions for “hundreds of medications.”
Around 2022, Xi nearly ended extreme poverty. In an effort to help villagers overcome poverty household-by-household, Xi launched a “targeted poverty alleviation” campaign in 2013. More than 3 million cadres and over 255,000 work teams were dispatched to the countryside.
With a GDP per capita of USD 12,720 in 2022, China was almost at the USD 13,845 “threshold” set by the World Bank for high-income nations. China’s economy, which is currently the “second largest” in the world, has steadily grown under Xi’s direction. China’s GDP percentage in the “world economy” increased from 11.3 percent to 18.5 percent throughout the last ten years.
China’s business community may suffer the “same difficulty” that regional authorities suffered in the early years of Xi’s administration’s anti-corruption drive. Consequently, in 2022, the millionaires of China made a record-breaking “donation” of USD 10 billion.
Two major initiatives in Xi’s goal to improve China’s standing in the world were the 2013 launch of the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) and the 2015 establishment of the “Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank” (AIIB). The funding and “infrastructure” projects necessary to meet its transportation, communication, and energy infrastructure demands in other nations, are essential components of both the BRI and the AIIB.
Xi’s December 2022 visit to “Saudi Arabia” served as evidence of China’s allure as a development partner. The agreement included pledges to create “data centers, electric vehicle production plants, and hydrogen energy” in Saudi Arabia. China concluded “e-commerce” agreements with Laos, Singapore, Thailand, and Pakistan just in November 2022.
China’s “overseas” trade surpassed six trillion dollars in 2021. Its “commerce” with the US increased to $755.6 billion, an almost 30 percent increase. In a study conducted in 2022 by the “American Chamber of Commerce in China,” 66% of participants stated their businesses intended to raise investment in China in the upcoming years.
Xi announced a number of “measures” that are genuinely benefiting the public. With 1.04 billion individuals insured by basic old-age insurance and 95% of the population by basic medical insurance, China has developed the greatest “social security system” in the world. For a decade in a row, “fiscal expenditure” on education made up more than 4% of GDP.
Under Xi’s leadership, the country launched an unprecedented campaign to combat pollution, particularly “water, air, and soil pollution.” The density of airborne hazardous particles in China decreased by 40% between 2013 and 2020, according to a report published by the “Energy Policy Institute” at the University of Chicago. It stated that if this continued, Chinese individuals’ average life expectancy would increase by roughly two years.
At a virtual UN meeting in 2022, Xi stated that China aims to reach peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and “carbon neutrality” by 2060. He gave the order to halt fishing in the “Yangtze” river for ten years. Every river in China now also has a “river chief,” in charge of its ecological protection.
Since 2013, Xi and Russian president Vladimir Putin have met almost 40 times to map out the future of their “bilateral” relations. Major “energy projects,” including the China-Russia natural gas pipeline’s eastern route, have seen cooperation between the two nations. Additionally, they have started working together in cutting-edge areas like the “International Lunar Research Station” initiative.
China moved up from 34th place in 2012 to “11th place in 2022” in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index. China boosted its R&D “investment” from 1 trillion yuan to 2.8 trillion yuan between 2012 and 2021. It is currently ranked second globally.
Past -
Similar to Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping was born during the “Year of the Snake.” Rat, ox, tiger, hare, snake, dragon, horse, sheep, rooster, monkey, dog, and pig are the animals associated with each year in the “twelve-year cycle” according to Chinese tradition. It is stated that people born in the Year of the Snake are “affable, upbeat, and entrepreneurial.”
Xi set out in life to live up to Yue Fei’s maxim, “serve the country with the utmost fidelity,” when he was a little child. Yue, a 12th-century military commander born out of patriotism, had the words “serve the country with the utmost fidelity” tattooed on his back by his mother. This phrase represents Confucian philosophy’s “Zhong,” or loyalty.
The PRC (or China) is a Leninist “party-state” as well as a nation-state. On October 1, 1949, the CPC founded the PRC. Following the party’s inception, Xi’s father held a number of positions, including “deputy-premier, head of Party propaganda,” and vice-chairman of the National People’s Congress.
During the “cultural revolution,” Xi’s father, Xi Zhongxun, was detained multiple times for violating the state, which led to his family’s hardship and social exclusion.
Xi attended Tsinghua University for “chemical” engineering at undergraduate level. Many people believe that Xi Jinping is a “disciple” of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin and former vice-president Zeng Qinghong.
Xi was turned down seven times before, on his eighth try in 1971, he was accepted into the “Communist Youth League of China” after making friends with a local official. He made ten applications to join the CPC starting in 1973, and on his “tenth try” in 1974, he was eventually admitted.
January 1969 was his first employment start, and in January 1974, he became a member of the “Communist Party of China” (CPC). Xi began serving “first as Party’s deputy chief and later chief” at Zhengding, a historic county in Hebei Province, in 1982.
Following Zhengding, Xi was posted to work in the special economic zone of “Xiamen,” located in the province of Fujian. It was in this capacity that Xi led the founding of “Xiamen International Bank,” the nation’s first joint-venture bank.
Xi Jinping was moved to “Ningde,” a remote mountainous prefecture in the province of Fujian in “east China,” in 1988 to take on the role of local Party chairman. Xi encouraged locals to artificially raise huge “yellow croakers” under his administration, and this endeavor eventually developed into a significant local industry that assisted the impoverished in escaping poverty. Eight out of ten huge yellow croakers present on Chinese “dinner” tables nowadays are produced in Ningde.
In November 2012, Xi was chosen as the CPC Central “Committee’s general secretary and appointed as the Military Commission’s chairman.” In March 2013, he got the PRC’s CMC chairmanship and “the presidency of China.” CMS stands for “Central Military Commission” and PRC for “People’s Republic of China” or “China.”
In 2022 and 2023, Xi took up his third “five-year tenure” as Party leader and head of state. The National People’s Congress of the PRC passed an amendment in March 2018 that eliminated “term restrictions” for presidents. This allowed Xi to run for a third “five-year term” in 2023, which he eventually won.
Regards -
| Honor | Organization/Country | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold | Belgium | 30 March 2014 |
| The Golden Olympic Order | International Olympic Committee (IOC) | 19 November 2013 |
| Order of Abdulaziz al Saud | Saudi Arabia | 19 January 2016 |
| Nishan-e-Pakistan | Pakistan | 21 April 2015 |
| Order of Saint Andrew | Russia | 3 July 2017 |
| Order for Promotion of Peace and Friendship | Belarus | 29 September 2016 |
| Order of Zayed | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | 20 July 2018 |
| Collar of the Order of the Liberator General San Martin | Argentina | 2 December 2018 |
| Order of South Africa | South Africa | 22 August 2023 |
*the aforesaid data came from “english.news.cn/cnleaders/xistime/Xifocus.htm”, “brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20thpartycongress_xi_jinping.pdf”, “crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12505”, “rienner.com/uploads/6463ea0513270.pdf”, etc.
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