How Xi Jinping Went From Feeding Pigs to Ruling China
How did Xi Jinping go from being a provincial politician to China's paramount leader in such a short period of time? In this Bloomberg Profile, we look at the life of China's 7th President...
========== Xi Jinping is the most powerful Chinese president
in decades.And he has many faces:Tough-guy Xi cracks down on corruption.Statesman Xi fights for free trade.Nationalist Xi reclaims land in the South
China Sea.Visionary Xi aims to make China a great global
power.Hereâs how a boy who was sent to the countryside
to shovel sewage and feed pigs reached thepinnacle of power.Xi was born in Beijing in 1953.His father Xi Zhongxun was a communist revolutionary
leader and China's propaganda chief, who roseto become a vice premier... before being purged
in Mao Zedong's Cultural RevolutionAt the age of 15 Xi too was affected by the
Cultural Revolution.He was sent to a rural village in northwestern
China where he lived in a cave house dug intoa hillside.âHe w...
