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Chinese history (Part III), Xi Jinping (2013-Present) 220px-Xi_Jinping…
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Xi Jinping (2013-Present) 
Currently, China is in its Fourteenth Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) seeking to decrease urban-rural inequalities and, amidst the Trade War with the US, export Chinese factories.
In 2018, he abolished presidential two term limits, allowing him to rule indefinitely with elections every 5 years.
Born in 1953 to an exiled veteran of CCP, he is the first leader of China to be born after the Revolution.
With the Belt and Road initiative he seeks to increase China's influence across the globe while at the same time finding allies. However, he is also fighting a Trade War since 2018 against the US
He has cracked down hard on corruption, but also engaged in increased censorship and supression of minorities, specially Muslims. He is also dealing with the Hong Kong protests since 2019, and the Covid-19 pandemic
Since the Qing greatly expanded their territory, the Great Wall wasn't of much use, as all nearby areas belonged to China
When the Qing finally took Zhungharia from the Mongols in 1759, 90% of the population was gone, leading to colonazation campaigns.
As the Qing declined, they became more decentralized, local governors became more powerful, something that would later lead to massive rebelions and the fragmentation of the empire among the western powers and Japan.
When the Long march (1934-1935) took place, Kai-shek's son was being held hostage in Russia, so he couldn't afford to anhilate the CCP.
Hua Guofeng was chairman from 1976 to 1981, he never attempted major reforms against the flawed Maoist ideology, and was thus made a puppet by Deng Xiaoping in 1978.
Ching Shih (1775-1844), also known as Madam Ching was a Chinese pirate leader who terrorized the China Seas during the Jiaqing Emperor period (1796 to 1820). She commanded over 1800 ships with 70.000 pirates and beat the imperial navy many times. When a coalition between China, US and Europe started forming against her, she was wise enough to negotiate the forgiveness of her crimes, living to die of old age.
Hong Xiuquan (1814-1864) was the Christian leader of the Taiping rebellion, who believed God had instructed him to take over China as the brother of Jesus.