Xi Zhongxun

Xi Zhongxun
习仲勋
Xi in the 1990s
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
In office 10 September 1980 – 15 March 1993
Chairman	Ye Jianying→Peng Zhen→Wan Li
Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong
In office November 1978 – November 1980
Preceded by	Wei Guoqing
Succeeded by	Ren Zhongyi
Governor of Guangdong
In office January 1979 – February 1981
Preceded by	Wei Guoqing (as Director of the Guangdong Provincial Revolutionary Committee)
Succeeded by	Liu Tianfu
1st Secretary-General of the State Council
In office September 1954 – January 1965
Premier	Zhou Enlai
Preceded by	Li Weihan
Succeeded by	Zhou Rongxin
14th Head of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party
In office January 1953 – July 1954
Party Chairman	Mao Zedong
Preceded by	Lu Dingyi
Succeeded by	Lu Dingyi
Personal details
Born	(1913-10-15)15 October 1913 Fuping County, Shaanxi, Republic of China
Died	24 May 2002(2002-05-24) (aged 88) Beijing, People's Republic of China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party (joined in 1928)
Other political affiliations	Kuomintang (1937–1945)
Spouse(s)	Hao Mingzhu Qi Xin
Children	7, including Qi Qiaoqiao, Xi Jinping and Xi Yuanping

Xi Zhongxun (Chinese: 习仲勋; pinyin: Xí Zhòngxūn; 15 October 1913 – 24 May 2002) was a Chinese communist revolutionary and politician who was the 1st Secretary General of the State Council from 1954 to 1965; Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong from 1978 to 1980; and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1980 to 1993. His second son, Xi Jinping, is the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012.

He is considered to be among the first and second generation of Chinese leadership.^[1] The contributions he made to the Chinese communist revolution and the development of the People's Republic, from the founding of Communist guerrilla bases in northwestern China in the 1930s to initiation of economic liberalization in southern China in the 1980s, are numerous and broad. He was known for political moderation and for the setbacks he endured in his career. He was imprisoned and purged several times.