Xi Jingping

Famous facts

• Xi Jinping literally used to live in a cave. After his father was purged from the party, a young Xi was sent to the countryside for re-education and hard labor. For around 7 years he lived in a cave and was made to work on a farm.
• It’s Xi Jinping’s legacy project – a massive network of trade routes linking china to markets across the world. At the cost of several trillion dollars he’s having gas and oil pipelines built with Central Asia. A road from China to Pakistan that cuts through mountains, railways in Europe that lead to Beijing.
• Big Daddy – that’s a popular nickname Chinese millennial use to refer to their leader, along with Xi Dads. It’s part of Xi Jinping’s cult of personality, which is stronger than Mao’s or Stalin’s ever was. There are popular Chinese songs praising him, with lyrics like “If you want to marry, marry someone like Xi dada”