Xi Jinping

To mark the importance of this relationship on 15 April Vicente received an honour usually reserved for heads of state and political leaders: an audience with the presumptive future president Xi Jinping...

The Communist Party Politburo’s current number two (Vice-President Xi Jinping) and number four (Jia Qinglin) both held the Fujian post on their way to the top...

* The incoming ‘Fourth Generation’ of leaders – with current Vice-Presidents Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang as President and Premier respectively – will inherit the new plan shaped by incumbent President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao...

Xi Jinping grew up in privilege in Beijing until the Cultural Revolution when Mao Zedong’s Red Guards turned on the bureaucracy...

He then flew to Beijing for meetings with President Hu Jintao and Vice-President (and presumed president-in-waiting) Xi Jinping...

Besides the two Hus its graduates include technocrats such as Xi Jinping (Vice-President and likely Hu successor; chemical engineering) Wu Bangguo (National People's Congress Standing Committee Chairman; electron tube studies) and Zhou Xiaochuan (People's Bank of China governor; economic systems engineering)...

These inner-circle groups both headed by President Hu Jintao and president-in-waiting Xi Jinping set the direction of policy for the Foreign Ministry...

So far Hu has won plaudits in China: he took power without major political ructions and is likely to hand it over the same way to Vice-President Xi Jinping in 2012...

With Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping providing behind-the-scenes muscle the government forced factory closures and enacted draconian traffic restrictions...

With Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping providing behind-the-scenes muscle the government forced factory closures and enacted draconian traffic restrictions...