H.E. Hu Jintao, President of the People’s Republic of China |09 February 2007

We present the following biography of the President:
H.E. Mr Hu is a native of Jixi, Anhui Province and was born in December 1942. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1964 and began to work in July 1965 after he graduated from the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, where he majored in hub hydropower stations.

He studied at the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University from 1959 to 1964 after which he became a political instructor at the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University.

He participated within the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University and served as political instructor before the start of the “cultural revolution.”

From 1968 to 1969, he worked with the housing construction team of Liujia Gorge Engineering Bureau in the Ministry of Water Conservancy.

H.E. Hu was a technician and secretary of No. 813 Sub-Bureau, Fourth Engineering Bureau, Ministry of Water Conservancy and deputy-secretary of the General Party branch of the sub-bureau’s head office and in 1974 became the Secretary of the Gansu Provincial Construction Committee (GPCC).

He became the Deputy Director of the design management division, GPCC and later Vice Chairman of GPCC and secretary of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League of China.

In 1982 he became the Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, Chairman of the All-China Youth Federation,
and three years later, First Secretary, Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China.

It was in 1985 that he became the Secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee and of the Party Committee of Tibet Autonomous Region from 1988.

From 1992 to 1993, President Hu was a Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.

In 1998, he became Vice-President of the People’s Republic of China and in 1999, he became Vice-Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission.

In 2002, he became the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission.

It was in March 2003 that H.E. Mr Hu Jintao was elected the President of the People’s Republic of China and in September the following year, the Chairman of the Central Military Commission and in 2005, he was voted in as Chairman of the State Central Military Commission.

President Hu is married to Mrs Liu Yongqing. They have a son and a daughter.