The 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was elected by the 18th National Congress on 15 November 2012, and sat in plenary sessions until the communing of the 19th National Congress in 2017. It was formally proceeded by the 17th Central Committee.
Image: Yu Guangzhou
Image: Xi Jinping in 2016
Image: Ma Xingrui
Image: Wang Yi 2014 (cropped)
Xi Jinping
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Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Xi has also been the president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 2013. He belongs to the fifth generation of Chinese leadership.
Xi Jinping greeting U.S. president George W. Bush in August 2008
Xi Jinping with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on 28 September 2010
The Muscatine, Iowa house where Xi stayed with an American family during a 1985 agricultural visit to the United States. The home was turned into a museum decades later.