Early Life
Xi Zhongxun was born on October 15, 1913 to a land-owning family in rural Fuping, Shaanxi Province. He joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in May 1926 and took part in student demonstrations in the spring of 1928, for which he was imprisoned by the ruling Nationalist authorities. In prison, he joined the Communist Party of China in 1928.
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