Xi Jinping officially declared president of China

Xi Jinping, who was appointed General Secretary of China's Communist Party in November 2013, was officially named president of the 1.3 billion people nation on Thursday. This is the second orderly leadership transition since the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949.

Xi Jinping's term will last for ten years and he faces many challenges such as dealing with the slowdown in Chinese growth, corruption among government officials, tensions with Japan, the USA, South Korea and the increasingly aggressive North Korea.