WORK EXPERIENCE & POLITICAL

ASSIGNMENTS THAT HELPED

SHAPE THE POLITICAL CAREER
OF XI JINPING

AQUINO, KARL ENRICO D.

CAPULONG, JONATHAN
XI JINPING’S SENT-DOWN YOUTH
“intimate understanding of rural life in China”
 SHAANXI IN 1969
Xi was based in a small village,
Liangjiahe, from the late 1960s to the
early 1970s worked a number of jobs:

• “Barefoot Doctor”
• Manual laborer
• Mechanic for Agricultural Vehicles
 BEIJING
He returned to Beijing to undertake
studies as a 'Workers' Brigade Scholar', a
special category for those whose
education had effectively ended a
decade before and who had been
deprived of the chance to attend
university or college.
“ One was to let me understand what is realistic,
what is the meaning of seeking truth from facts,
and what the people actually are ... The other was
to strengthen my self-confidence. As the saying
goes, a sword grows sharp when rubbed against a
stone, and men grow stronger through hardship.'
”
The rustication period of seven years taught him two things: 5
EARLY CAREER OF XI JINPING 6
QING HUA UNIVERSITY 7
• Chemical Engineering
MILITARY CAREER 8
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• Working member of the Politburo
Committee.
• Leader in Central Military
Commission.
• Worked and Helped Geng Biao as
one of the leaders mandated to go
outside China.
• Technological and Economic
reform.
THE PROVINCIAL YEARS 10
 ZHENGDING 11
VILLAGE OFFICER
• Xi Jinping entered this world by first working
in Zhengding, a village in Hebei, the province
around Beijing
• Village committees had no formal status even
in the new 1982 constitution.
• Villages were still where almost 85 per cent
of the country's population lived at this time.
And, most importantly, they had to
implement some of the least popular central-
government policies - collection of taxes and
the one-child policy being perhaps the two
most egregious.
THE FUJIAN YEARS 12
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XIAMEN
• Xi had the good fortune to work with a
veteran leader, Xiang Nan.
• Xi experienced first hand what 'reform and
opening up' meant in practice.
• Xi had come to the frontline of 1980s reform.
Factories were established in the city region,
capitalizing on the Taiwanese, Japanese and
South Korean companies putting some of their
manufacturing capacity there. It would be
here that he would see some of the wealth
creation that reform inspired- but also some
of its problematic side effects.
NINGDE: BACK TO BASICS 14
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NINGDE
Xi was sent to Ningde, a township in one of the
poorest parts of the province where he became the
district Party secretary.
THINGS HE LEARNED WHILE IN NINGDE
• He 'learned to liberate his thinking, inculcate
good cadres, deal with poverty and promote
openness from top to bottom' .
• He gained first-hand experience of one of the
problems of reform: the rising levels of official
corruption.
• It was here that, for the first time, he began to
address the theme of how Party and government
officials should not go into politics in order to
enrich themselves.
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FUZHOU
• Xi move to the city of Fuzhou and became Party
secretary there in May 1990.
• Fuzhou had a reform and open up to deal with
its problems.
• Xi’s career progressed when he finally elevated
to provincial leadership as a deputy governor.
• In 2000, Xi was elevated once more from deputy
governor to full governor of the province. But
only two years later he was moved to Zhejiang,
a coastal province to the north, this time to be
Party secretary.
ZHEJIANG: THE FAT YEARS 17
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ZHEJIANG
• Xi served as Party head in Zhejiang at the zenith
of the time when provincial careers were all
about delivery of good levels of growth.
• Xi came to suffered from underperforming
exports and low inward-investment levels. He
was to address this, attracting McDonald's,
Motorola and Citibank to set up branches there.
• In his four years in Zhejiang, exports rose an
extraordinary 33 per cent year on year, ranking
fourth nationally.
• Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician serving as
the general secretary of the Communist Party of
China (CPC), president of the People's Republic of
China (PRC), and chairman of the Central Military
Commission (CMC). Xi has been the paramount
leader, the highest-ranking official in China, since
2012 and he officially received the title of
"leadership core" from the CPC in 2016.