Xi Jinping: Man of the people, statesman of vision

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2012-12/23/c_132058719.htm

Editor's note: On the occasion of five weeks after the new central leadership elected at the first Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee took office, Xinhua News Agency opened the "Top CPC Leadership" special column. Over three consecutive days beginning Sunday, Xinhua will broadcast profiles and related photos of the seven members of the Standing Committee of the 18th CPC Central Committee Political Bureau.


File photo taken in 1972 shows Xi Jinping returns home in Beijing to visit his relatives during the time when he is an educated youth in countryside. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in 1973 shows Xi Jinping (2nd L) poses for photo during the period when he is an educated youth in Yanchuan County of northwest China's Shaanxi Province. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in 1977 shows Xi Jinping (R) poses for photo as a college student. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in 1979 shows Xi Jinping, then working for the General Office of the Central Military Commission. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in 1983 shows Xi Jinping (L, front), then secretary of the Zhengding County Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), listens to opinions of villagers in Zhengding County, north China's Hebei Province. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in 1983 shows Xi Jinping poses for photo as he sits in his office in Zhengding County, north China's Hebei Province. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in 1985 shows Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Zhengding County Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), poses for photos as he visits San Francisco in the United States. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in August 1987 shows Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan pose for photo in the Dongshan Island in southeast China's Fujian Province. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in 1988 shows Xi Jinping (front), then secretary of the Ningde Prefecture Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), participates in farm work during his investigation in the countryside. (Xinhua)


File photo shows Xi Jinping, then vice mayor of Xiamen City of southeast China's Fujian Province, poses for photo during an overseas visit. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in September 1989 shows Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in August 1993 shows Xi Jinping (1st L), then secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), meets with citizens in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in December 1995 shows Xi Jinping (1st L, front), then deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and secretary of the CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee, reinforces the downstream levee of the Minjiang River at Minhou County, southest China's Fujian Province. (Xinhua)


File photo shows Xi Jinping carries his daughter with a bicycle in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province. (Xinhua)


File photo shows Xi Jinping (R, rear) with his father Xi Zhongxun (R, front), his wife (L, front) and his daughter (C, front). (Xinhua)


File photo shows Xi Jinping (L) accompanies his mother Qi Xin for a walk. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in January 2007 shows Xi Jinping (1st R), then secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), cooks for the aged people living in a rest home of Pingdu Township of Qingyuan County in east China's Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in September 2007 shows Xi Jinping (C), then secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), talks with hearing-impaired students at Qiyin School in Minhang District of east China's Shanghai. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in January 2008 shows Xi Jinping (C) visits Tang Zhaowei, a villager of Dong ethnic group who suffered a loss in the snow and ice storms, in Laoshankou Village of Gaolouping Township, southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)


File photo taken in February 2012 shows Xi Jinping (2nd R, front) and his old American friends who got to know each other 27 years ago have a tea chat at a friend's home during his visit to the State of Iowa in the United States. (Xinhua/Liu Jiansheng)


File photo taken in February 2012 shows Xi Jinping kicks a Gaelic football as he visits the headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland. (Xinhua)


File photo taken in November 2012 shows Xi Jinping shakes hands with an HIV carrier as he participates in activities of the World Aids Day at Health Service Center of Puhuangyu Community in Fengtai District of Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)


File photo taken in December 2012 shows Xi Jinping has a lunch with soldiers during his inspection to the Guangzhou Military Region in south China. (Xinhua/)