Chinese politician and current Vice President of the People's Republic of China. He is one of the leading figures behind China's foreign affairs and one of President Xi Jinpingclosest political allies. After graduating high school, he worked as a sent-down youth in the countryside, performing manual labour with peasants on a commune in the revolutionary heartland of Yan'an, where he met his future wife and befriended Xi Jinping. He was admitted as a "Worker-Peasant-Soldier student" at Northwest University in Xi'an, where he studied history and graduated in 1976. He also worked in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
