Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao (; Chinese: 胡锦涛; pinyin: Hú Jǐntāo; Mandarin pronunciation: [xǔ tɕìn.tʰáu]; born 21 December 1942) is a retired Chinese politician, who was General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, President of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 2003 to 2013 and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012. He was a member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, China's de facto top decision-making body, from 1992 to 2012. Hu is considered to have been the paramount leader of China from 2004 to 2012.Hu participated in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for most of his career, notably as Party Committee Secretary for Guizhou province and the Tibet Autonomous Region and then later First Secretary of the CCP Central Secretariat and Vice-President under former leader Jiang Zemin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hu Jintao has received more than 3,258,071 page views. His biography is available in 104 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 103 in 2019). Hu Jintao is the 301st most popular politician (up from 372nd in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from China (up from 28th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Chinese Politician.

Hu Jintao is most famous for being the president of China from 2003 to 2013.