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Hu Jintao

1942 - Today

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Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the president of China 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 was the fifth paramount leader of China from 2002 to 2012.Hu rose to power through the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), notably as Party Committee secretary for Guizhou province and the Tibet Autonomous Region, where his harsh repression of dissent gained him attention from the highest levels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hu Jintao has received more than 6,581,886 page views. His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2019). Hu Jintao is the 285th most popular politician (down from 249th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from China (down from 15th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Chinese Politician.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 107

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Hu Jintaos by language

Over the past year Hu Jintao has had the most page views in the with 1,102,215 views, followed by English (785,644), and Japanese (168,995). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Slovenian (106.07%), Khmer (98.72%), and Bashkir (93.81%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hu Jintao ranks 285 out of 19,576Before him are Alexander II of Russia, Charles VIII of France, B. R. Ambedkar, Charles the Bald, Edward Heath, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. After him are Septimius Severus, Odoacer, Martin Bormann, Charles XII of Sweden, Sulla, and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Hu Jintao ranks 10Before him are Muammar Gaddafi, Joe Biden, Stephen Hawking, Aretha Franklin, Amitabh Bachchan, and Eusébio. After him are Harrison Ford, Jimi Hendrix, Ratko Mladić, Scatman John, Ehud Barak, and Dino Zoff.

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In China

Among people born in China, Hu Jintao ranks 20 out of 1,610Before him are Kublai Khan (1215), Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), Du Fu (712), Chiang Kai-shek (1887), Wu Zetian (624), and Cao Cao (155). After him are Xuanzang (602), Qianlong Emperor (1711), Guan Yu (162), Liu Bei (161), Ip Man (1893), and Kangxi Emperor (1654).

Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Hu Jintao ranks 10Before him are Sun Yat-sen (1866), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Xi Jinping (1953), Kublai Khan (1215), Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), and Wu Zetian (624). After him are Qianlong Emperor (1711), Liu Bei (161), Kangxi Emperor (1654), Jiang Zemin (1926), Puyi (1906), and Emperor Taizong of Tang (598).