China's president, Hu Jintao, greeted 2012 with an important essay warning that China was being battered by Western culture: ''We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration,'' he...
BEIJING -- President Hu Jintao has said China must strengthen its cultural production to defend against the West's assault on the country's culture and ideology, according to an essay in a Communist Party policy magazine published this week. The publication of Mr. Hu's words signaled that a new major policy initiative announced in October would...
BEIJING -- China and Japan have agreed to start direct trading of their currencies, officials announced during a visit here by Japan's prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda. The move was among several that emerged from Mr. Noda's meetings with President Hu Jintao, which on Monday focused on how the two nations could work together to maintain peace on the...
Hú Jǐntāo (født 21. december 1942) blev generalsekretær i Kinas kommunistiske parti den 15. november 2002, og efterfulgte Jiang Zemin som Folkerepublikken Kinas præsident den 15. marts 2003.
Hu Jintao er uddannet som vandbygningsingeniør fra det ansete Qinghua-universitet. Ifølge officielle biografier skal han være i besiddelse af en fotografisk hukommelse. Politisk er han moderat og forsigtig. Han tilbragte det meste af sin tidligere karriere i de fattigere provinser, og var derfor ukendt for vestlige analytikere før han uventet blev præsident.