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The CMC has been headed by General Secretary of CPC Central Committee Hu Jintao, also Chinas president, since September 2004. Hu himself was appointed CMC vice-chairman in September 1999 when he was vice-president. The other two CMC vice-chairmen are General Guo Boxiong and General Xu Caihou. Before coming to Zhongnanhai, the Beijing compound of the countrys top leaders, in October 2007, Xi had been briefly in charge of Chinas richest and most glamorous city, Shanghai. He became Party secretary of the financial center in March 2007 after a social security fund scandal had led to the downfall of the citys former Party chief Chen Liangyu and more than a dozen senior officials and businessmen. Xi rose from humble beginnings as a village head to a State leader. 1969-1975: He was sent to a remote mountain village in Yanchuan county in the northwestern province of Shaanxi when he was only 16 years old. He spent six years there, cutting hay, reaping wheat and shepherding in the daytime, and then reading books in the dim light of a kerosene lamp while enduring the harassment of fleas at night. He was soon elected the villages Party branch chief. 1975-1979: He was recommended for enrollment at Tsinghua University, and became a student of basic organic synthesis at the universitys chemical engineering department. 1979-1982: After graduation, he became a secretary at the General Office of the State Council and the General Office of the Central Military Commission (as an officer in active service). In the following two decades, Xi became deputy secretary of the Party committee in Zhengding county, Hebei, and gained more work experience in the countrys affluent coastal areas, including Fujian and Zhejiang provinces and Shanghai municipality. Xi worked in Fujian for 17 years, being promoted from vice-mayor of Xiamen in the mid-1980s to provincial governor in the early 2000s. Other major posts he held during the period include: 1988-1990: Secretary of the CPC Ningde prefectural committee in Fujian. 1990-1993: Secretary of the CPC Fuzhou municipal committee. 1993-1995: Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Fujian provincial committee. 1995-2002: Deputy secretary of the CPC Fujian provincial committee. 1996-1999: First political commissar of the anti-aircraft artillery reserve division of Fujian provincial military command. 1999-2000: Acting governor of Fujian province. 2000-2002: Governor of Fujian province. Xi moved to Zhejiang to work as acting governor in 2002, when the fast growing province was faced with a predicament - the extensive economic growth mode could not support sustainable development. After a thorough study of Zhejiangs conditions, Xi concluded that the province must undergo industrial restructuring. 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