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Hu Jintao
Age: 66
President, Peoples Republic of China
Hu is an engineer by training, with a degree from Tsinghua University's department of water conservancy engineering. As a rising official in the Communist Party, he had positions in many impoverished parts of the country, including Tibet. That could be one reason, since becoming China's top leader in 2002, he has promoted as policy a "Harmonious Society" that eases the gap between China's wealthy coastal regions and the poor interior.
