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Hu Jintao

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Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese politician who served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, President of China from 2003 to 2013, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission from 2004 to 2012. He was a member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision-making body, from 1992 to 2012, and served as the country's fifth paramount leader 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. He moved up to serve as a member of the CCP Central Secretariat and vice president under CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hu Jintao is the 307th most popular politician (down from 285th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from China (down from 21st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Chinese Politician.

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

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hu Jintao ranks 307 out of 19,576. Before him are Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Güyük Khan, Constantine XI Palaiologos, Ali Khamenei, Anwar Sadat, and Philip I of Castile. After him are Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Alexander III of Russia, Park Chung-hee, Beatrix of the Netherlands, François Mitterrand, and Konstantin Chernenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Hu Jintao ranks 9. Before him are Joe Biden, Muammar Gaddafi, Martin Scorsese, Aretha Franklin, Amitabh Bachchan, and Eusébio. After him are Calvin Klein, Ratko Mladić, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Harrison Ford, and Bob Ross.

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In China

Among people born in China, Hu Jintao ranks 22 out of 1,610. Before him are Sun Yat-sen (1866), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Du Fu (712), Ip Man (1893), Wu Zetian (624), and Zhuang Zhou (-369). After him are Zhu Xi (1130), Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), Cao Cao (155), Temür Khan (1265), Toghon Temür (1320), and Mencius (-372).

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    1942 - Present

    HPI: 81.29

    Rank: 22

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Hu Jintao ranks 10. Before him are Mao Zedong (1893), Puyi (1906), Xi Jinping (1953), Sun Yat-sen (1866), Deng Xiaoping (1904), and Wu Zetian (624). After him are Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), Temür Khan (1265), Toghon Temür (1320), Qianlong Emperor (1711), Kanishka (78), and Jiang Zemin (1926).

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