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At Cafe Bau, one of the must-try restaurants in Hong Kong, the dean, professors and doctors of the former Central Plains College of Humanities gathered together and started a rambling chat. Inadvertently, the topic of the chat turned to the evaluation of Hu Jintao's merits and demerits.

Bai Yu, the former dean of the Central Plains College of Humanities, and Shen Zhirui, a professor of group psychology, and Hong Wenxuan, a professor of sociology, obviously have different views.

Nanyangsheng, Wanru, Qin Xiling, Lin Beixue, Shen Haidong, Zhou Yuzhong and other doctoral students became the students of the audition.

Dean Bai Yu, who is full of nationalist red thoughts, introduced Hu Jintao's life in detail to the young students.

On December 21, 1942, Hu Jintao was born in Taixian County, Jiangsu Province (now Taizhou City). His father's real name was Hu Zengyu, and he later changed his name to Hu Jingzhi. His family engaged in tea business from Jixi, Anhui to Taizhou during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. His mother, Li Wenrui, also came from a wealthy family in Anhui. She graduated from a normal college in Tongzhou, Nantong, and later became a primary school teacher. The two met and got married after being introduced. In the second year of marriage, Hu Jintao was born, and then gave birth to two daughters, Hu Jinrong and Hu Jinlai.

After Hu Jintao entered school age, Hu Jintao first studied at Wuxiang Primary School, and then transferred to Taizhou Dapu Primary School. Li Wenrui paid attention to the education of his children, so Hu Jintao's brother and sister had good grades. Li Wenrui passed away in 1949, when Hu Jintao was only 7 years old. Because their father was too busy running the tea business, Hu Jintao and his sister were briefly raised by their aunt Li Wengui, but Li Wengui also passed away due to illness. Since then, Hu Jingzhi has raised the three of them alone.

In 1953, Hu Jintao was admitted to a private Taizhou Middle School. In 1956, he entered Taizhou Middle School in Jiangsu Province to study in high school. According to the memories of his family members, Hu Jintao was quiet when he was young, loved reading, and had a refined and easy-going personality. He once filled in "Taizhou, Jiangsu Province" in the hometown column of his resume, but he has been filling in "Jixi, Anhui" since middle school after he was taught by his father[6]. Hu Jintao’s cousin Hu Jinxia in Jixi’s hometown recalled: Hu Jintao saw that her hometown was also filled in “Jixi, Anhui”. His father Hu Zengyu said to him: “Our hometown is Jixi, Anhui. You grew up in Jiangsu, and your ancestral home is Anhui.” Many years later, Hu Jintao said to representatives from Anhui at a national delegation meeting: "I am also from Anhui. My hometown is in Huizhou, and I am from Jixi."

Dean Bai Yu talked about Hu Jintao's college experience.

When Hu Jintao graduated from high school in 1959, he was admitted to the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University with honors. During his studies, he met his later wife, Liu Yongqing. He and Liu Yongqing were the youngest students in the same grade in the Department of Water Conservancy Engineering at that time, but Liu Yongqing was slightly older than him. While in school, Hu Jintao's grades were still excellent, except for one homework with 4 points, the rest were all 5 points.

During his time at Tsinghua University, Hu Jintao was keen on dancing and other activities. He once served as the branch secretary of the dance team of the student art troupe and the political counselor of the Department of Water Conservancy. In April 1964, he joined the Communist Party of China. In the same year, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao participated in the large-scale music and dance epic "The East Is Red" as one of 100 students selected by Tsinghua University. On October 1st, Hu Jintao was selected into the parade team of Tsinghua University and participated in the National Day parade. Afterwards, Hu Jintao wrote an article about his feelings about participating in the rehearsal and parade of "Dongfanghong", titled "I Learned a Vivid Lesson: An Ode to Mao Zedong Thought—Workers, Peasants, Soldiers, and Students Discuss Music and Dance Epic "Dongfanghong"" and published it on On the "People's Daily" on October 6, 1964, this was the first time Hu Jintao appeared in this newspaper.

After graduating from university in 1965, Hu Jintao was left by the school to participate in scientific research and teach in the Department of Water Conservancy, and continued to serve as a political counselor. During the Cultural Revolution, he participated in the "414 Headquarters of Jinggangshan Corps of Tsinghua University" organized by the moderate Red Guards.

Dean Bai Yu talked about Hu Jintao's work and entering the political arena.

In 1968, Hu Jintao went to the housing construction team of the Liujiaxia Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Water and Electricity in Gansu to work and labor. From 1969 to 1974, he served successively as a technician, secretary, and deputy secretary of the party branch of the No. 4 Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Water Resources. In 1974, he served as the secretary of the Gansu Provincial Construction Committee, and then successively served as the deputy director of the Design Management Office of the Gansu Provincial Construction Committee and the deputy director of the Gansu Provincial Construction Committee.

During his stay in Gansu, Hu Jintao also married Liu Yongqing, a college classmate he had known for many years, and gave birth to a son Hu Haifeng and a daughter Hu Haiqing.

It is reported that Hu Jintao was appreciated by Song Ping, then Secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and later a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and recommended him to Hu Yaobang, then General Secretary. Subsequently, in September 1982, Hu Jintao entered the Communist Youth League system and served as secretary of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League. Since then, he has embarked on the fast track of career development. Only a few months later, he went to Beijing to serve as secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Youth League and chairman of the All-China Youth Federation. In 1984, he served as the first secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Youth League. During this period, he visited Japan and received courtesy.

During this period, Hu Jintao was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee at the Twelfth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1982, as described in the TV series "Deng Xiaoping at a Turning Point in History". At that time, Hu Jintao had just turned 40 years old and was very young. This was a manifestation of Deng Xiaoping's advocacy of "four modernizations of cadres".

Dean Bai Yu fully affirmed Hu Jintao's performance when he was in charge of the local government.

At that time, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China considered Hu Jintao as the head of the Central Propaganda Department, but considering that there were many members of the Youth League faction in the Central Committee at that time, Zhu Houze, who was then Secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, was appointed as the position. Hu Jintao was ordered to fill the vacancy, and in July 1985, he became secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China. Due to its natural conditions and other reasons, Guizhou Province has always been one of the poorest provinces in China. In 1986, Guizhou's per capita GDP was only RMB 461, ranking first among Chinese provincial administrative regions. The Bijie area of Guizhou, located among the mountains, was once one of the poorest areas in the province and even in the country.

Half a year after taking office, Hu Jintao put forward the "blood-making" poverty alleviation method based on the objective reality of Guizhou and his own observations, that is, poverty-stricken areas should not only rely on relief, but also give full play to their initiative and self-reliance to develop the economy in order to truly get rid of poverty . Under his proposal, Guizhou Province dispatched a large number of cadres to enrich the grassroots and carried out large-scale poverty alleviation. In response to the ecological and poverty problems in the Bijie area, in 1988, Hu Jintao promoted the implementation of the Bijie Ecological Experimental Zone, identified three major themes of ecological construction, poverty alleviation and development, and population control, and strived to explore a road of harmonious coexistence between man and nature and sustainable economic and social development , and invited the inspection team from Beijing to go to investigate in person. In June of that year, the State Council officially approved the establishment of the "Poverty Alleviation and Ecological Construction Pilot Zone in Bijie, Guizhou Province". Since then, the situation in Bijie has improved significantly. From 1987 to 2011, Bijie's GDP increased by 41 times, fiscal revenue increased by 90 times, farmers' per capita net income increased by 23 times, and the urbanization rate and forest coverage rate increased by about one percentage point each year. More than 1.5 million fewer births were born, more than 1.5 million labor exporters, 1.8 million rural population were transferred, and 3.45 million people in absolute poverty were reduced.

Hu Jintao also initiated large-scale institutional reforms in Guizhou Province, successively abolishing the party groups of 11 departments including the Provincial Personnel Bureau, Labor Bureau, Statistics Bureau, Audit Bureau, Industry and Commerce Bureau, and Price Bureau. Big and fast.

In 1987, at the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Hu Jintao was officially elected as a member of the Central Committee.

On October 14, 1988, an incident occurred in Guizhou University where trainees beat and injured students of the school, and later evolved into a mass incident in which thousands of students took to the streets to demonstrate. Faced with the situation, Hu Jintao held a meeting overnight to discuss and coordinate with the demonstrating college students, and finally resolve the incident.

In early 1992, Hu Jintao returned to Beijing and initially worked in the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, participating in the preparations for the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Unexpectedly, in response to the national cadre rejuvenation measures at the time, recommended by Song Ping, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and nominated by Deng Liqun, on October 19, 1992, Hu Jintao, then 49 years old, was elected at the First Plenary Session of the Fourteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. As a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (ranked seventh), secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee (responsible for executive work), entered the top leadership of the Chinese Party and the country, and became a national-level leader.

At that time, Hu Jintao's actual age was less than 50 years old, about 16 years younger than the average age of the other six members of the Politburo Standing Committee. Therefore, General Secretary Jiang Zemin called him a "young man" at the media meeting.

Dean Bai Yu said: Such an age and arrangement would be almost impossible to achieve without special considerations such as the future layout. Therefore, the outside world generally believes that Deng Xiaoping has arranged for Jiang Zemin's successor since then. Later General Secretary Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang were also directly elected as members of the Politburo Standing Committee in 2007. In November of the same year, Hu Jintao ceased to concurrently hold the post of party secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

In February 1993, Hu Jintao succeeded Qiao Shi as the principal of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. During this period, Hu Jintao was mainly in charge of party affairs and organizational work. In March 1997, after the death of Deng Xiaoping, accompanied by Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao and Wei Jianxing, Deng Xiaoping's ashes were scattered into the sea.

On September 19, 1997, 54-year-old Hu Jintao was re-elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Central Secretariat at the First Plenary Session of the 15th CPC Central Committee. His ranking in the party rose from seventh to fifth.

In March 1998, Hu Jintao succeeded Rong Yiren as Vice President of the People's Republic of China at the First Session of the Ninth National People's Congress. In September 1999, Hu Jintao was added as Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The vice chairman, becoming Jiang Zemin's veritable successor, is preparing for the next power transfer.

In addition, Hu Jintao also served concurrently as the head of the Central Leading Group for the Political and Legal Affairs of the Armed Police Forces to Stop Engaging in Business Activities, and the head of the National Coordination Group for Anti-Terrorism Work. His business fields have gradually expanded from party affairs to military affairs and diplomacy. .

Dean Bai Yu's narration gave those young students a new understanding of Hu Jintao.

Dean Bai Yu continued:

On November 15, 2002, 59-year-old Hu Jintao succeeded Jiang Zemin at the First Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee and was elected as the party's top leader.

In March 2003, Hu Jintao was elected the sixth President of the People's Republic of China at the first meeting of the Tenth National People's Congress. In 2004 and 2005, he was elected as Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the National Military Commission at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee and the Third Session of the Tenth National People's Congress respectively. In October 2007, he was re-elected as General Secretary of the Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military Commission at the First Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In March 2008, he was re-elected as President of the State and Chairman of the Central Military Commission at the Eleventh National People's Congress. In May of the same year, when Hu Jintao visited Japan, he stated that he "I did not want to be the chairman, but the people of the whole country elected me and let me be the chairman."

Hu Jintao's first Politburo Standing Committee meeting after taking office emphasized the "inviolability of the Constitution". The Chinese government also released data on social unrest in China for the first time and endorsed the people's right to know.

During the SARS epidemic in 2003, Hu Jintao's government acted decisively, promptly dismissing Minister of Health Zhang Wenkang and Beijing Mayor Meng Xuenong from their posts. He was praised for his attitude as a civilian leader.

On the economic front, the agricultural tax for farmers has been abolished, more lenient policies have been adopted for migrant workers, the first to support inland cities, the implementation of the basic medical insurance system, the increase of the minimum wage in urban areas, and the construction of affordable housing projects.

Hu Jintao's tenure spanned China's tenth, eleventh and twelfth five-year plans. The Chinese authorities under his leadership focused on social and economic balance and the rational allocation of resources in China's inland regions.

During Hu Jintao's tenure, China's economy as a whole showed a trend of "state advances and private retreat". In the fields of civil aviation, steel, automobiles, real estate, etc., some large state-owned enterprises rely on government policy preference and direct capital injection to annex private enterprises on a large scale. From 2008 to 2009, the government introduced ten measures to expand domestic demand to resist the financial crisis, but most of the huge investment flowed to local governments and state-owned enterprises, making private enterprises under the double attack of the market and state-owned enterprises in the crisis.

During Hu Jintao's term of office, significant progress has been made in the construction of major projects in China. Major projects such as the Three Gorges Project, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and the first high-speed railway (Wuhan-Guangzhou High-speed Railway) were all completed during Hu's tenure. National defense science and technology has also made breakthroughs, the first manned spaceflight was realized, and the Shenzhou 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 manned spaceships all successfully launched and landed. Space projects such as Chang'e and Tiangong have also launched their spacecraft into space one after another.

Following Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, and the Three Representatives proposed by Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao proposed theories including the Scientific Outlook on Development, the Socialist Outlook on Honor and Disgrace, and a Harmonious Society. At the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the scientific concept of development was listed as one of the important "guiding ideologies" of the party. In March 2018, the "Scientific Outlook on Development" was written into the Constitution of the People's Republic of China.

On January 15, 2008, Hu Jintao delivered a speech at the second plenary meeting of the 17th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, claiming that the effectiveness of anti-corruption work will be regarded as an important indicator of winning the trust of the people. For the first time in 30 years, a clearly articulated vision of anticorruption goals.

During Hu Jintao's tenure as general secretary, two officials at the level of members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee were dealt with. In September 2006, Chen Liangyu, the former secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, was removed from his post and put under investigation. In March 2012, Bo Xilai, former secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee, was removed from his post and placed under investigation.

The two largest events held by China during the Hu Jintao period were the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Both events achieved great success and came to a successful conclusion. In 2009, China held a large-scale military parade for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and Hu Jintao personally participated in the military parade. In addition, large-scale events such as the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games were successfully held during Hu's tenure.

In the eyes of President Bai Yu, Hu Jintao's achievements cannot be denied.