Since 2012, Xi Jinping has served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and since 2013, as President of the People’s Republic of China.

Since 2012, Xi has been China’s supreme leader and the most powerful political figure in the People’s Republic of China.

 

Following his father’s purging during the Cultural Revolution, he was exiled to rural Yanchuan County as a teenager and resided in a yaodong in the village of Liangjiahe, where he joined the Communist Party and worked as the local party secretary.

Xi ascended through the political levels in China’s coastal provinces after studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University as a “Worker-Peasant-Soldier student.”

From 1999 to 2002, Xi served as Governor of Fujian before becoming Governor and Party Secretary of Zhejiang from 2002 to 2007.

Following the departure of Shanghai’s Party Secretary, Chen Liangyu, Xi was temporarily assigned to replace him in 2007.

In October 2007, he was appointed first secretary of the Central Secretariat by the CCP’s Politburo Standing Committee (PSC).

In 2008, he was named Vice President of the People’s Republic of China and Vice Chairman of the CMC as Hu Jintao’s projected successor as paramount leader.

Xi Jinping and wife Peng Liyuan
Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan

Is Xi Jinping Married?

Xi Jinping has been married twice. In the early 1980s, Xi married Ke Lingling, the daughter of Ke Hua, China’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. Within a few years, they were divorced. He is currently married to Peng Liyuan.

Who is Jinping Married Current Wife Peng Liyuan?

Peng Liyuan is a contemporary Chinese folk singer and the wife of Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party’s current General Secretary and President of the People’s Republic of China.

Peng rose to fame as a singer because of her participation in the annual CCTV New Year’s Gala, a prominent Chinese television show that airs during the Chinese New Year.

She earned awards in singing competitions all around the country. “People from Our Village,” “Zhumulangma,” and “In the Field of Hope” are some of her most well-known singles.

Peng has also performed the theme songs for a number of successful TV shows, including The Water Margin (1998). She was also a performer in musicals.

In 1987, Peng wed Xi Jinping. As with many Chinese couples in the 1980s, Xi and Peng were introduced by friends.

During their romance, Xi was said to be intellectual, inquiring about vocal techniques. On September 1, 1987, in Xiamen, Fujian, the pair tied the knot.

Peng Liyuan returned to Beijing four days later to perform at the National Art Festival before flying to the United States and Canada.

Since then, Xi and Peng have lived mostly separate lives, with Peng spending the majority of her time in Beijing and her husband in Fujian and then Zhejiang.

They have a daughter named Xi Mingze together.