2026-11-06
On November 6, Beijing held elections for the renewal of district and township people's congress deputies. Former CCP General Secretary Hu Jintao entrusted staff members to cast his ballot on his behalf, marking the third consecutive election since 2016 that he has not voted in person.
2026-09-17
Online reports claim that retired elders such as Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao and Zeng Qinghong held a private brainstorming session, discussing the political line, the retirement system, and how to pull back the recent overemphasis on national security; whether the meeting actually took place cannot be verified.
2026-08-17
Thirteen retired state-level elders, including Wen Jiabao, Zeng Qinghong, and Wang Qishan, attended a high-level political ceremony at the Great Hall of the People. Hu Jintao's absence has sparked various rumors regarding Beidaihe secret talks and power succession.
2026-08-14
Overseas political commentator reports that Hu Jintao has entered a critical condition, with his family members and related personnel having rushed back from the United States and gathered at the 301 Hospital.
2026-08
It circulated online that Hu Jintao, Liu Yongqing and Hu Haifeng's whole family suffered food poisoning and all died after being taken to hospital; the poster later claimed the account had been impersonated, and the rumor was debunked.
2026-07-31
Phoenix Television director Qin Feng was suspected of revealing on the X platform that Hu Jintao, Liu Yongqing and Hu Haifeng were poisoned at dinner; Qin Feng later personally replied that it was a photoshopped image and that those who believed it were the "basic demographic of telecom fraud." The claim drew widespread attention and speculation.
2026-07
The video points out that the new Air Force commander Wang Gang was a subordinate of Zheng Qunliang, a senior general whom Hu Jintao promoted back in the day, and that he belongs to Hu's faction.
2026-03-11
People’s Daily reported on the funeral of Song Ping, former Chinese State Councillor, mentioning that Hu Jintao and other comrades went to the hospital to visit him or expressed their condolences.
2026-03-10
A farewell ceremony for Song Ping's remains was held at Babaoshan in Beijing. Xinhua News Agency reported that several senior officials, including the seven members of the Standing Committee, were in attendance; Hu Jintao did not attend.
2026-03-04
Chinese Communist Party elder Song Ping has passed away at the age of 109. Xinhua News Agency reported that Hu Jintao sent a wreath to express his condolences.
2026-02
People's Daily reported that Xi Jinping visited veteran comrades during the Chinese New Year, in which Hu Jintao was mentioned.
2026-01
There have been claims that generals including Li Zuocheng proposed a plan to bring the 38th Army's heavy units into Beijing, impose air traffic control, and declare martial law in the capital, only to be blocked by Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao; this claim has no public reports to corroborate it.
2025-07
In July 2025, rumors that Hu Jintao was critically ill circulated overseas, claiming that his daughter-in-law and grandson rushed from Shanghai to Beijing's 301 Hospital to keep vigil, and that Hu Haifeng also went to the hospital after getting off work.
2025
Sources claim that Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli directed the military to control the venue during the Fourth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee; it is alleged that Hu Jintao had not agreed to handle the top figure at the venue; this claim has no public reports to corroborate it.
2024-07-15
Overseas rumors suggest that Xi Jinping suffered a stroke during the Third Plenary Session, military control changed hands, and Zhang Youxia placed him under control while contacting Hu Jintao through Liu Yuan.
2022-10-22
At the closing ceremony of the 20th CCP National Congress, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was escorted out of the venue by staff, and subsequently, Hu Chunhua was not included in the new Politburo list.
2022-10-22
At the closing ceremony of a major CCP meeting, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was escorted out of the venue by security guards in full view of the public, marking the complete bankruptcy of political norms such as inter-generational succession designation.
2022-10-22
At the closing session of the 20th CCP Congress, political successors left by Hu Jintao—including Li Keqiang, Wang Yang, and Hu Chunhua—failed to enter the new Politburo Standing Committee, while Xi Jinping successfully secured his reappointment as General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
2022-10
At the closing session of the CCP's 20th National Congress in October 2022, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was unsteadily escorted out of the venue early, in full view of everyone, drawing widespread attention.
2017-07-24
In July 2017, Sun Zhengcai was suddenly investigated and expelled from the CCP. He and Hu Chunhua were once seen as candidates for the sixth-generation leadership; his downfall marked a turning point for the succession plans Hu Jintao had left for himself.
2012-11-16
On the second day after the conclusion of the First Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee, Hu Jintao stated at an enlarged meeting of the Military Commission that Xi Jinping was a qualified General Secretary and Chairman of the Military Commission. Xi Jinping, in turn, highly praised Hu Jintao for voluntarily stepping down as Chairman of the Military Commission, marking the official completion of the power transition.
2012-11-15
After the First Plenary Session of the 18th CCP Central Committee on November 15, 2012, Hu Jintao stepped down as General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, with Xi Jinping succeeding him, becoming the first non-serving-for-life top leader to hand over all of his power in one go.
2011-01-19
Elaine Chao and her father, James S.C. Chao, were invited to President Obama's state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, reflecting their dual roles as representatives of American politics and Chinese business.
2011
In 2011, the Jasmine Revolution broke out in China, and the Hu Jintao administration suppressed it with iron-fisted means.
2010
In 2010, Forbes magazine ranked then CCP Central Committee General Secretary Hu Jintao as the world's most powerful person of the year.
2008-06-27
The video claims that in June 2008 Hu Jintao presided over a Politburo meeting to deploy Olympic security, with Beijing mobilizing 50,000 police officers and more than 1 million militia patrol members and volunteers; no public reports of this meeting or these figures can be found.
2007-06
In June 2007, Hu Jintao pushed forward a system of democratic recommendations, in which more than 400 Central Committee members and alternate members voted to select Politburo candidates from among more than 200 ministerial-level officials under the age of 63. Large numbers of Jiang Zemin faction members voted in blocs, resulting in Li Keqiang's elimination and Xi Jinping's victory, and Hu Jintao's succession plan fell through.
2007-01-23
On January 23, 2007, the 38th collective study session of the CCP Politburo, themed on the building and management of online culture, Hu Jintao stressed strengthening the building and management of online culture.
2006
During Hu Jintao's term, the agricultural tax, which had lasted for over two thousand years, was successively abolished, and the Compulsory Education Law was amended.
2005-12-29
On December 29, 2005, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress voted to repeal the Agricultural Tax Regulations. Hu Jintao signed Presidential Order No. 46 on the same day. From January 1, 2006, Chinese farmers no longer paid agricultural tax, reducing the burden on farmers nationwide by 133.5 billion yuan per year, an average of 140 yuan per person.
2003-12-05
From December 5 to 7, 2003, the National Conference on Propaganda and Ideological Work was held in Beijing. In his speech, Hu Jintao called for staying close to reality, close to life, and close to the masses, and stated that the Party's control over propaganda and the Party's control over ideology must never waver at any time.
2002-11
In November 2002, the Chinese Communist Party held its 16th National Congress, and Hu Jintao became General Secretary of the CCP Central Committee, but the Standing Committee was expanded from 7 to 9 members, most of whom were from Jiang Zemin's faction, greatly weakening Hu Jintao's political power.
2002-11
At the CCP's 16th National Congress in 2002, Jiang Zemin did not step down as chairman of the Central Military Commission; his remaining in office created an emperor-emeritus dynamic. Although Hu Jintao became General Secretary, military power remained in Jiang Zemin's hands.
1999-09
At the Fourth Plenary Session of the 15th CCP Central Committee held in September 1999, Hu Jintao was added as Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the CCP Central Committee.
1992
At the CCP's 14th National Congress in 1992, Deng Xiaoping named Hu Jintao to enter the Politburo directly and serve as Secretary of the Secretariat of the CCP Central Committee, and also to join the Standing Committee; 49-year-old Hu Jintao was publicly established as the successor to the General Secretary.
1989-03-02
On March 2, 1989, a large number of Tibetans gathered in the square in front of the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, shouting "down with corrupt officials," demanding the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet and the return of power to the Tibetan people. Hu Jintao dispatched armed police to clear the area, but it failed.
Location: Lhasa own content archive., Tibet ·
Importance IV ·
Verification: Reported ·
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1988-12
At the end of 1988, Hu Jintao was dispatched by Deng Xiaoping to Lhasa to serve as Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Soon after taking office, he encountered the death of the Panchen Lama and turmoil in Lhasa.
Location: Lhasa own content archive., Tibet ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Reported ·
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1986-12
In December 1986, student unrest broke out successively in Hefei, Shanghai, and Beijing and spread to Guiyang. Hu Jintao neither supported the protests nor sent in troops and police to suppress them; instead, he personally met with student representatives, made concessions and promises in exchange for the students withdrawing from the streets, and made no arrests afterward.
1985
In 1985 Hu Jintao was transferred from the Communist Youth League Central Committee to serve as Secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, making him the youngest provincial Party secretary in China at the time; in 1986 Guizhou's per capita GDP was only 461 yuan, ranking last in the country.
1982
After being recommended and introduced to Hu Yaobang by Song Ping, Hu Yaobang and Song Ping jointly recommended Hu Jintao to serve as Secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Youth League of China Central Committee and Chairman of the All-China Youth Federation. Hu Jintao, about 40 years old, returned to Beijing and was promoted to First Secretary of the Communist Youth League Central Committee within two years.
1980
After the Cultural Revolution, Chen Shunyao, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University, recommended Hu Jintao to her husband Song Ping, and Hu Jintao was promoted from an ordinary technician to secretary of the Communist Youth League Gansu Provincial Committee.
1968
In 1968, Hu Jintao left Tsinghua and was assigned to the Liujiaxia hydropower project unit in Gansu, where he worked for many years as an ordinary technician and worker with no chance of promotion.
1966
After the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, Hu Jintao was repeatedly subjected to struggle sessions and forced to write self-criticisms at Tsinghua because he was regarded as a lackey of Jiang Nanxiang's revisionist education line and as coming from a petty-bourgeois background; he neither defended himself nor took part in struggling others.
1966
During the Cultural Revolution, Hu Jingzhi, Hu Jintao's father who was far away in Taizhou, was dragged out and denounced in the movement, framed on charges of embezzling funds from a cooperative shop, and ultimately died in depression.
1964
In 1964, two years before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, Hu Jintao joined the Chinese Communist Party, and through the counselor system established by Tsinghua president Jiang Nanxiang, he was selected to serve as a political counselor at Tsinghua.
1959
In 1959, Hu Jintao was admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent grades. He had originally intended to apply for the Department of Automatic Control, but due to his family background, he was reassigned to the Department of Hydraulic Engineering.
1956
In the 1956 joint state-private ownership, the tea shop run by Hu Jintao's father Hu Jingzhi in Taizhou was merged into a cooperative store. Hu Jingzhi went from being a small boss to a salaried clerk, and was labeled as being of bourgeois origin.
1942
Hu Jintao was born in Taizhou, Jiangsu, in 1942, during the chaotic years of the War of Resistance. When he was 7 years old, his mother died of illness, and his father, unable to support them, sent him and his sister to be raised by his aunt, enduring a childhood marked by war and the hardships of living under someone else's roof.