Editing Hu Jintao (section)

== Public image ==
''Newsweek'' named Hu the second most powerful person in the world in 2009, referring to him as "the man behind the wheel of the [[Economy of China|world's most supercharged economy]]."<ref>{{cite web |date=5 January 2009 |title=The NEWSWEEK 50: Chinese President Hu Jintao |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/176298 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327225724/http://www.newsweek.com/id/176298 |archive-date=27 March 2010 |access-date=13 March 2010 |work=Newsweek}}</ref> ''[[Forbes]]'' also named him the second most powerful person in the world later that year.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Noer |first1=Michael |last2=Perlroth |first2=Nicole |date=11 November 2009 |title=The World's Most Powerful People |work=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/2009/11/11/worlds-most-powerful-leadership-power-09-people_land.html |url-status=live |access-date=13 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113185034/http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/11/worlds-most-powerful-leadership-power-09-people_land.html |archive-date=13 November 2009}}</ref> Hu was named the 2010 [[Forbes list of the World's Most Powerful People|World's Most Powerful Person]] by ''[[Forbes|Forbes Magazine]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Perlroth |first=Nicole |date=3 November 2010 |title=The Most Powerful People On Earth |work=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/2010/11/01/obama-china-power-opinions-powerful-people-10-intro.html |url-status=live |access-date=4 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415160341/https://www.forbes.com/2010/11/01/obama-china-power-opinions-powerful-people-10-intro.html |archive-date=15 April 2019}}</ref> Hu was listed four times (2008, 2007, 2005 and 2004) on the [[Time 100]] annual list of most influential people. In 2010, [[Reporters Without Borders]], an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with the stated aim of safeguarding the right to freedom of information, included Hu among the list of [[press freedom predator]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/reporters-without-borders-puts-russias-putin-chinas-hu-on-list-of-press-predators|title=Reporters Without Borders puts Russia's Putin, China's Hu on list of press 'predators'|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=Fox News|date=3 May 2010|access-date=1 November 2023|archive-date=1 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101082628/https://www.foxnews.com/world/reporters-without-borders-puts-russias-putin-chinas-hu-on-list-of-press-predators|url-status=live}}</ref>