Hu Jintao
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Hu Jintao holds the three major political positions in the People's Republic of China (PRC): President of the People's Republic of China, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission. These three positions mean he is at apex of the state, party and military. He represents the fourth generation of leaders in the People's Republic of China since it was established in 1949. Hu is seen by many as the ultimate insider in Chinese politics--someone completely indoctrinated by the Chinese educational system who never studied overseas and afterward never took any risks that might endanger his career--and may not understand politics outside China or East Asia well.
Eight Virtues
On Wednesday, March 15, Hu Jin Tao released a list of basic virtues at the meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
- Love, do not harm the motherland.
- Serve, don't disserve the people.
- Uphold science; don't be ignorant and unenlightened.
- Work hard; don't be lazy and hate work.
- Be united and help each other; don't gain benefits at the expense of others.
- Be honest and trustworthy, not profit-mongering at the expense of your values.
- Be disciplined and law-abiding instead of chaotic and lawless.
- Know plain living and hard struggle, do not wallow in luxuries and pleasures.
Biography
Hu Jintao was born in December 1942 in Jixi, Anhui Province and joined the Communist Party of China in April 1964 and began to work in July 1965 after he graduated from the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University where he had a majored in hub hydropower stations. Hu and his wife Liu Yongqing were schoolmates at Qinghua University. The couple have a son and a daughter, who are also graduates of Qinghua University.
He trains and works as an engineer, and as a politician. Hu worked at the grassroots level in Gansu Province in 1968 until 1982 when he was selected to be a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Youth League of China Central Committee and president of the All-China Youth Federation. He was appointed, successively, secretary of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee and of the CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee in 1985, although it is believed that he spent less time in that high altitude environment than in Beijing.
Timeline
- 1959-1964: Student at the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University.
- 1964-1965: Postgraduate and political instructor at the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University.
- 1965-1968: Participated in R&D at the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University and served as political instructor before the start of the "cultural revolution."
- 1968-1969: Worked with the housing construction team of Liujia Gorge Engineering Bureau, Ministry of Water Conservancy.
- 1969-1974: Technician and secretary of No. 813 Sub-Bureau, Fourth Engineering Bureau, Ministry of Water Conservancy and deputy-secretary of the general Party branch of the sub-bureau's head office.
- 1974-1975: Secretary of the Gansu Provincial Construction Committee (GPCC).
- 1975-1980: Deputy Director of the design management division, GPCC.
- 1980-1982: Vice Chairman of GPCC and secretary of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League (Sept.1982-Dec.1982).
- 1982-1984: Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, chairman of the All-China Youth Federation.
- 1984-1985: First Secretary, Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China.
- 1985-1988: Secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee.
- 1988-1992: Secretary of the Party Committee of Tibet Autonomous Region.
- 1992-1993: Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee at the First Plenum of the 14th CPC Central Committee.
- 1993-2002: Hu was concurrently president of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, which has been the training base for senior CPC cadres and backbones of theoretical studies over the past 70 years.
- 1993-1998: Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, president of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
- September 1997: Hu re-elected Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the First Plenum of the 15th CPC Central Committee.
- March 1998: Hu becomes Vice-President of China in March 1998 and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission in September 1999.
- 1998-1999: Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, Vice President of the People's Republic of China, President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
- 1999-2002: Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, vice chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, vice president of the People's Republic of China, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China, president of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
- 2002-March 2003: General secretary of the CPC Central Committee, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, and vice president of the People's Republic of China.
- November 2002: Hu becomes General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee at the 16th National Congress of the CPC.
- March 15, 2003: He was elected President of China at the First Session of the 10th National People's Congress, the top legislature of the country.
- September 19, 2004: Succeeded Jiang Zemin as chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission at the Fourth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee, which ended in Beijing.
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