Biography:General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 2012 and President of the People's Republic of China from 2013.
Domestically, Xi has introduced far-ranging measures to enforce party discipline and to ensure internal unity, as well as initiating an unprecedented campaign against corruption that saw the high-profile arrests of General Xu Caihou and Zhou Yongkang.
Xi has also significantly centralized institutional power by taking on a wide range of leadership positions. At the 2017 Communist Party Congress, Xi's ideology was embedded in the party's constitution under the category of Thought, something not afforded to a Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.
In foreign affairs he has championed a more assertive foreign policy, in particular China's claims to the bulk of the South China Sea.
2013-03-14 Xi Jinping named the new President of the People's Republic of China
2013-09-07 Chinese President Xi Jinping announces plans to develop a new 'Silk Road Economic Belt' (part of Belt and Road Initiative) during visit to Kazakhstan
2013-10-03 Chinese President Xi Jinping announces plans for a "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", linking China to Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean (Belt and Road Initiative / One Belt One Road) while in Indonesia
2015-09-22 Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Seattle to start his first state visit to the US
2017-04-06 Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Florida for talks with US President Donald Trump
2017-06-28 China’s president, Xi Jinping begins 3 day trip to Hong Kong to mark 20 years since the territory handed back to China
2017-07-30 China's President Xi Jinping heads 12,000 troop parade at Zhurihe training base, Inner Mongolia marking 90 years since founding of the People's Liberation Army
2017-10-18 19th Chinese Communist Party congress opens in Beijing with President Xi Jinping delivering 3hr 23min speech heralding “new era”
2017-10-25 Chinese Premier Xi Jinping unveils his new ruling council in the Great Hall of the People, none of the five are young enough to succeed him
2018-03-11 China's National People's Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, allowing Xi Jinping to be presidency for life
2018-03-25 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un begins surprise trip to Beijing by train to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping
2018-03-28 North Korea's Kim Jong-un meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, his first trip outside of North Korea since coming to power in 2011
2018-06-22 Comedian John Oliver is blocked on Chinese social media after parody of Chinese leader Xi Jinping
2018-08-07 China bans release of Winnie the Pooh movie "Christopher Robin", after character used to mock Chinese President Xi Jinping
2018-10-23 World's longest sea-crossing bridge, the Hong Kong Macau Zhuhai bridge at 55km, opened by Chinese President Xi Jinping
2018-12-02 Trade war truce agreed between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at G-20 meeting in Argentina
2019-03-23 Italy signs up to China's Belt and Road Initiative with deals signed in Rome between Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and Chinese President Xi Jinping
2019-06-20 Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, the first Chinese president to visit North Korea in 14 years
2019-09-25 Chinese President Xi Jinping opens Beijing's new Daxing International Airport designed by Zaha Hadid
2020-02-23 China's Supreme Leader Xi Jinping describes the country's COVID-19 outbreak as the China's largest health emergency since 1949
2020-03-10 Three months into the COVID-19 epidemic Chinese President Xi Jinping finally travels to Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak as the rate of daily new infections declines in China falls to 19 new cases and 17 deaths
2020-09-22 President Xi Jinping of China pledges at the UN that the country will adopt stronger climate targets including becoming carbon neutral by 2060
2020-12-12 Chinese leader Xi Jinping says the country will reduce its carbon intensity by 65% by 2030
2021-02-25 Chinese President Xi Jinping claims the country has eradicated extreme poverty (earning less than US$620 a year), though many observers remain skeptical about the accuracy of Chinese data due to widespread corruption and lack of transparency
2021-07-01 President Xi Jinping makes a defiant address at celebrations in Tiananmen Square, Beijing to mark the 100 year centenary of the Chinese Communist Party
2021-07-21 President Xi Jinping arrives in Tibet in first official visit by a Chinese leader in 30 years
2021-09-21 World leaders address climate change at the UN, Joe Biden pledges to double financial aid to developing countries, President Xi Jinping says China will stop coal-fired projects abroad
2021-10-10 Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen says country won't bow to Chinese pressure in defiant speech on Taiwanese National Day, day after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to "fulfil reunification"
2022-09-15 Chinese leader Xi Jinping meets Russian President Vladimir Putin and other regional leaders at a summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan
2022-10-23 Xi Jinping secures record third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party with a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, at the 20th National Party Congress in Beijing
2022-11-14 US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in person for the first time as national leaders at a G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia
2023-03-10 Xi Jinping appointed to a historic third term as President of China (previously restricted to two terms)
2023-03-11 China's government appoints Li Qiang, a close ally of President Xi Jinping, as the country's new Premier
2023-03-20 Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow, the first between the two since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago
2023-06-19 Chinese Premier Xi Jinping meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Great Hall of The People, Beijing
2023-10-17 China's President Xi Jinping celebrates 10 years of its Belt and Rod project at summit in Beijing attended by Russian leader Vladimir Putin
2023-11-15 Attempting to firm up their countries relations US President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold bi-lateral talks at Filoli Historic House and Garden, Woodside, California
Chiang Kai-shek
Deng Xiaoping
Hu Jintao
Hu Yaobang
Hua Guofeng
Mao Zedong