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Xi Jinping: Down To The Countryside Movement
Biography - Xi Jinping
习近平
President Xi Jinping was born on the 15th of June, 1953 in Beijing, China and is currently the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and also the President of the People's Republic of China.
Xi Jinping has a wife named Peng Liyuan, and a daughter named Xi Mingze.
In May 1966, Xi Jingping’s secondary education was cut short by the Cultural Revolution and when Xi was 15 his father was jailed….

Without the protection of his father, Xi had went to work in Yanchuan County in 1969 in Mao Zedong's Down to the Countryside Movement. Xi later became the Party branch secretary of the production team. When he left his job in 1975, he was only 22 years old.
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