Xi Jinping

Mantashe met Vice-President Xi Jinping presumed successor to President Hu Jintao but the ANC/CCP intimacy did not play well with the public...

While the Dalai Lama awaited a visa to attend Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 80th birthday party on 7th October South African Vice-President Kgalema Motlanthe and Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping were in Beijing signing a US$2...

In mid-May Niang also travelled to Beijing for an audience with Vice-President Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi...

In April Sonangol Chief Executive Manuel Vicente (see Who’s Who) met Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping in Beijing...

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)...