And that's how Xi Jinping got admitted. >> (speaking Mandarin) >> SMITH: Xi got a degree in chemical engineering, but his interest was in party politics. In 1979, after graduation, he was posted ...

Xi Jinping is general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (since 2012) and president of China (since 2013). He was born in 1953 and joined the Communist Party in 1974. He studied chemical ...

China has suspended a top military official and placed him under investigation for corruption, the defense ministry said, as leader Xi Jinping broadens a sweeping purge in the upper ranks of the ...