::: WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE 2011 1ST RANK :::

Age: 68
Title: President
Organization: People's Republic of China
Residence: Beijing, China
Country of citizenship: China
Marital Status: Married
President, People's Republic of China

Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) walks with Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano (R) as they inspect a Chinese People's Liberation Army honour guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 26, 2010. Napolitano, a former communist, is playing a state visit to China from October 24 to 30 and will hold talks with Hu Jintao and meet with Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao.

Powerful People: November 2010
Paramount political leader of more people than anyone else on the planet; exercises near dictatorial control over 1.3 billion people, one-fifth of world's population. Unlike Western counterparts, Hu can divert rivers, build cities, jail dissidents and censor Internet without meddling from pesky bureaucrats, courts. Recently surpassed Japan to become the world's second-largest economy both in absolute and purchasing power terms. Credible estimates have China poised to overtake U.S. as world's largest economy in 25 years--although, crucially, not on a per-capita basis. Creditor nation oversees world's largest reserves at $2.65 trillion--$1.5 trillion of which is in U.S. dollar holdings. Refuses to kowtow to U.S. pressure to change its exchange-rate regime. Heads world's largest army (in size). His handpicked successor, Xi Jinping, set to assume the presidency in 2012.

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