Hu Jintao

  • Hu Jintao is the President of the People's Republic of China, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China. Hu Jintao has generally taken a more conservative and restrictive position, policy wise, than his predecessor, Jiang Zemin. Though he had been working as a governor in various provinces for several years prior, Hu made a name for himself politically with his performance as Party Chief of the Tibet Autonomous Region. While he did introduce some liberalization of rules governing cultural practices in the region, he was also responsible for the 1988 political crackdown and some foreign media have implicated him in the sudden 1989 death of the Panchen Lama. As President of China, Hu has tried to balance the driving direction of the country from "GDP first and welfare second," to a more moderate, gradual, approach to development.

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