Hu Jintao re-elected as General Secretary of the Central Committee and Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission on 22 October 2007. At the 11th National People's Congress, Hu was re-elected as President on 15 March 2008. He was also re-elected as Chairman of the PRC Central Military Commission. "Newsweek" named Hu the second most powerful person in the world, referring to him as "the man behind the wheel of the world's most supercharged economy." "Forbes" also named him the second most powerful person in the world. Hu was named the 2010 World's Most Powerful Person by "Forbes Magazine". Hu was listed
Hu Jintao four times (2008, 2007, 2005 and 2004) on the Time 100 annual list of most influential people. Political observers indicate that Hu distinguished himself from his predecessor in both domestic and foreign policy. Hu's political philosophy during his leadership is summarized by three slogans — a "Harmonious Socialist Society" domestically and "Peaceful Development" internationally, the former aided by the Scientific Development Concept, which seeks integrated sets of solutions to arrays of economic, environmental and social problems, and recognizes, in inner circles, a need for cautious and gradual political reforms. The Scientific Development doctrine has been written into the Communist Party