His mandate, between 2002 and 2012, was marked by high economic growth, but also by an ideological easing criticized by Xi Jinping
At the age of 79 and in very poor health, former President Hu Jintao attended the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China to show unity around his successor, Xi Jinping. With his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, out of circulation for 96 years, Hu was the only remnant of the collective leadership imposed by Deng Xiaoping after Mao’s death to prevent his personalist excesses. And that is exactly what Xi Jinping liquidated with the staging of his eternity in power yesterday and his public mockery of Hu Jintao.
Born in 1942 in Anhui Province, into a wealthy family of merchants belonging to the Chinese petty bourgeoisie, Hu entered the hydraulic engineering faculty of the elite Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1959. There he joined the Communist Party in 1964, shortly before his father died after being tortured during the infamous Cultural Revolution and himself was sentenced to two months of re-education through labor for defending those responsible for the University of the “anti-bourgeois” movement. » launched by the Red Guard.
Away from the palace intrigues of Beijing, Hu Jintao played a lightning career in the poor province of Gansu in the 1970s, where he participated in the state’s pharaonic hydrological projects and fostered political relations that would elevate him to the Central Committee of the Party and League of Communist Youth.
From such platforms, in 1985 he rose to provincial party secretary in Guizhou, one of the least developed areas of China, and in Tibet, where he declared martial law in 1989 to crush an independence protest that saw a dozen protesters died.
At the age of 50, Hu Jintao became the youngest member of the Politburo Standing Committee in 1992, thanks to the generational renewal mandated by Deng Xiaoping. A decade later, he succeeded Jiang Zemin as general secretary of the Communist Party, and the following year he was named president of the country. His tenure was marked by strong economic growth, but also a worsening of social inequality, an increase in corruption and a relaxation of the communist ideology that was openly criticized by Xi Jinping.
Source: La Verdad
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