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Hu Jintao

胡錦濤　/　不明

Politician from People's Republic of China

December 21, 1942 (age 83)　・　Jiangyan District, People's Republic of China

politician
engineer

My Take

Hu Jintao interests me as the rare supreme leader who governed by subtraction. A Tsinghua-trained engineer, he ran China for a decade — the decade of its most explosive growth — while deliberately projecting almost no personality at all. No cult, no slogans bearing his name, just consensus management executed with technocratic precision. Historians will argue about what that restraint achieved or merely postponed, but I find the style itself remarkable: in an era when politicians everywhere chased attention, he treated invisibility as a governing tool. His tenure reads less like a reign than a long, carefully supervised engineering project, and that may be exactly how he wanted it remembered.

Overview

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, president of China from 2003 to 2013, chairman of the Party Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012 and chairman of the State Central Military Commission from 2005 to 2013.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Hu Jintao
Name (Japanese): 胡錦濤
Reading: 不明
Born: December 21, 1942 (age 83)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Sagittarius / Horse
Origin: Jiangyan District, People's Republic of China
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: politician / engineer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Jiangsu Taizhou High School
University: Tsinghua University

Awards & achievements

Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru‎
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class
Nishan-e-Pakistan
Order of José Martí
Order of Saparmurat Türkmenbaşy the Great
2005 Golden Key of Madrid
Order of the Sun of Peru
National Order of Madagascar

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E9%8C%A6%E6%BF%A4

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