People You Should Know - Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao

- President of the People Republic of China
- Chairman of the Communist Party of China since 2003
- his political philosophy can be summarized by three slogans — a “Harmonious Society” domestically and a “Peaceful Development” internationally, the former generated by a “Scientific Development Perspective,” which seeks integrated sets of solutions to arrays of economic, environmental and social problems, and recognizes, in inner circles, a need for political reform (though studied, cautious and controlled).
- though the foreign press' freedom in China has been significantly increased, Hu has been very cautious with regards to the Internet, choosing to censor politically sensitive material to a degree more strict than the previous era of Jiang Zemin.