After being recently named the top leader in the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping’s ancestry has generated a great deal of interest online.
Xi’s father Xi Zhongxun, who was born in Fuping, Shanxi Province and who later passed away in 2002, once said, “My ancestral home was Deng County (renamed to Dengzhou City in 1988), Henan Province. My grandfather (Xi Yongsheng) owned two acres of land at the time and life was very difficult; coupled with natural disaster and constant banditry, my family fled to Fuping, Shanxi Province,” according to a report from Sohu.
