Hu Dunfu program. Hu thus became head of NCTU's mathematics department in 1930. In July 1935, Hu, together with other leading Chinese mathematicians including Feng Zuxun, Xiong Qinglai, Chen Jiangong, and Su Buqing, established the Chinese Mathematical Society at a meeting held in the library of NCTU. Hu served as the first president of the society. As the Communist Party of China defeated the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, Hu Dunfu followed the retreating Kuomintang government to Taiwan in 1949. The new Communist government of the People's Republic of China closed Utopia along with many other private schools in 1952, and
Hu Jintao credited for being an effective mediator and consensus-builder. Hu also won praise for stepping down as military chief in favour of his successor Xi Jinping at the same time relinquishing his position as General Secretary. This was seen as a message to the establishment and Jiang Zemin that elders should retire according to protocol and avoid meddling in the affairs of their successors. Hu is married to Liu Yongqing, whom he met at Tsinghua University when they were studying there. They have two children together, Hu Haifeng and Hu Haiqing. Unlike Wen Jiabao, the Premier, he never granted a public