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Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping is a Chinese statesman and politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Party Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2012, and the president of China and chairman of the State Central Military Commission since 2013. Xi has been the leader of the fifth generation of Chinese leadership since 2012.

Liu Xiaobo
Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist (1955–2017)

Chen Kaige
Chinese film director and screenwriter

Wang Qishan
10th Vice President of the People's Republic of China from 2018 to 2023

Zhang Dejiang
Chinese retired politician
Li Yuanchao
Chinese politician
Liu Yunshan
Chinese retired politician
Dai Sijie
Chinese–French author, screenwriter and film director
Xie Jin
Chinese film director (1923–2008)
Down to the Countryside Movement
exile of Chinese urban youth to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution
Wang Anyi
Chinese writer
Lü Jiamin
Chinese writer

Chen Yi
Chinese-American composer and violinist

Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
1998 film by Joan Chen
Zhu Xiao-Mei
Chinese musician
Zhang Xinxin
Chinese writer (1953- )
Da Chen
American writer (1962–2019)
Jin Liqun
Executive Chairman of International Finance Forum (IFF)
Huang Nubo
Chinese businessman
rusticated youth of China
youth forced to work in the countryside during China's cultural revolution; urban Chinese youth who were relocated to the countryside for reeducation during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and who developed a shared group identity
Wu Yingjie
Chinese politician
Zhou Bingde
Chinese journalist and politician (born 1937)