Hu Jintao person

“Hu grew up in a merchant family in the city of Taizhou.…”

“He was, according to his family, an obedient child who did well enough at school to gain a spot at Qinghua University, where he earned a degree in engineering.…”

“By the time he left college, he had become a member of the Communist Party…”

“during the early part of his career he was working with. the patronage of a party official named Song Ping…”

“By the early 1980s, his discipline had eamed Hu a position atop the Communist Youth League…”

“The elder Hu accelerated the career of the future president, engineering his appointment at thirty-nine to the party’s Central Committee and at forty-two to the position of provincial party secretary…”

“As party secretary in Guizhou, he fostered an atmosphere that embraced intellectual diversity…”

“When he moved on from there to Tibet, where he oversaw. the province at a time of pro—Dalai Lama protests in the streets of Lhasa…”

“His work in Tibet from 1989 to 1992 earned him appreciation-in the inner sanctums of the Communist Party... and he was named a member of the Politburo standing committee.…”

“Just six years later in 1998, Jiang Zemin named him vice president and therefore positioned him as his most likely successor.…”

“After a few trips by Jiang to Beijing, then vice president Hu Jintao told Ramos and Hawke that the Chinese goverment would support their project.…”