The legacy of Hu Jintao

Abstract

As the curtains are drawn on the fourth generation of leadership under the stewardship of Hu Jintao and the stage being set for the fifth generation of leadership in China with the eighteenth party congress meeting scheduled on November 8, the time is ripe to look back and see what kind of legacy President Hu Jintao is leaving behind. Perhaps his biggest achievement is to bring into prominence the concept of ‘social governance’, something that was missing from the Chinese political lexicon ever since China embarked on the path of reforms and opening up...