Hu Jintao, (1942 -)

After elected by the 16th National Congress of the CPC, (November 2002) Hu Jintao began to serve as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPC, Chairman of the Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the PRC, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the PRC.

Hu Jintao was born in Jixi, Anhui Province. He joined the CPC in April 1964. Hu Jintao graduated from the Department of Water Conservancy Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1965. He was an engineer. Between 1968-1969, he worked in the Housing Construction Group of the Liujiaxia Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Water and Electricity. Between 1969-1974, Hu Jintao served as Secretary, and technician in the Hydroelectric Power Ministry, 4th Project Bureau, 813 Branch Bureau. Between 1974-1982, he consecutively served as the Secretary, deputy director and Vice-Chairman in the Provincial Construction Committee of the Gansu Province.

Hu Jintao was elected as the alternate member of the Central Committee at the 12th National Congress of the CPC in 1982. Between 1982-1985 he served successively as the Secretary of the CYLC at the provincial -level in Gansu Province and as the Secretary of the Central Committee of the CYLC (Communist Youth League of China) next as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China. In 1985, at the 5th Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee Hu Jintao was elected as a member of the Party Central Committee. Between 1985-1988, he served as the Secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee. Between 1988-1992, Hu Jintao served as secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

In 1992, at the 14th National Party Congress Hu Jintao was elected as the member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. Since then, he was in charge of the Secretariat work of the Party Central Committee, President of the Central Party School, Vice-Chairman of the People's Republic of China, Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Party and Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China. Elected as the General Secretary of the Central Committee at the 16th National Congress of the CPC in 2002 and elected as the President of the People's Republic of China at the First Session of the Tenth National People's Congress in 2003. At the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixteenth CPC Central Committee in 2004, he was elected as Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Party, and at the Third Session of the Tenh National People's Congress he was elected as Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the PRC.

During the inspection tour in Jiangxi Province between August 28 - September 1, 2003, Hu Jintao formally proposed the concept of “Scientific Outlook on Development”. At the Third Plenary Session of the Sixteenth Central Committee of the CPC in October 2003, the connotations of the concept of Scientific Development was clearly expounded.

The resolution issued at the Third Plenary Session, proposed to adhere to the people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable concept of scientific development and advocated the promotion of all-round development of the economy, society and human beings. On March 10, 2004, at the "Central Symposium on Population, Resources and Environment", the connotation and basic requirements of the “Scientific Outlook on Development” were further expounded. In October 2007, the 17th National Congress of the CPC made a systematic elucidation on the Scientific Concept of Development, which pointed out: the essence of the scientific concept is development, and being people-oriented is at its core. The basic requirement is to strive for comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development. The fundamental approach is to make integrated plans and take every aspect into consideration.

The Scientific Concept of Development accurately grasps the stage characteristics of China's development, reveals the essence and connotations of development, and made a series of new theoretical generalizations around the major questions of what kind of development should China achieve and how to develop.

He proposed to adhere to the people-oriented principle, achieve comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development, build a harmonious socialist society, accelerate the construction of ecological civilization, comprehensively implementing the overall layout of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, establish the Socialist core value system, build a socialist cultural power; building a new socialist countryside and building an innovative country. He emphasized adhering to the path of peaceful development and promoting the construction of a harmonious world; adhering to overall consideration, correctly understanding and properly handling the major relations in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics; strengthening the Party's ability to govern, safeguard the Party's advanced nature and purity. These new thoughts embodied the new achievements made by the Party on a series of important issues concerning the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics and elucidated the scientific way to promote the sustained and healthy development of the economy and society. On the basis of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Important Thought of “Three Represents”, the “Scientific Outlook on Development” creatively further deepened the answers given to the question of what is socialism, how to build socialism and what kind of Party to build, how to build it under the conditions of the new situation.

“Scientific Outlook on Development” creatively answers to the important questions of what kind of development to achieve and how to develop under the new situation.

“Scientific Outlook on Development” provides a systematic scientific theory which includes many aspects such as proposing a holistic approach to our work relating to reform, development and stability, to domestic and foreign affairs as well as national defense, and to running the Party, the country and the military, in coordinating urban and rural development, development between regions, economic and social development, relations between man and nature, and domestic development and opening to the outside world, thus It has further advanced the historical process of the Sinicization of Marxism, raised our Party's understanding of the laws of socialism with Chinese characteristics to a new level, and advanced the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics to a new level.

In November 2012, the 18th National Congress of the CPC established the “Scientific Outlook on Development” as the as the guiding ideology of the Party together with the Important Thought of “Three Representatives”, Marxism-Leninism, and Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, which the Party must adhere to for a long time to come. Hu Jintao’s main works are collected in Collected Works of Hu Jintao.