{"id":182141,"date":"2015-03-17T15:29:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T22:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=182141"},"modified":"2015-03-17T20:57:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T03:57:36","slug":"hu-chunhuas-star-fading-amid-lackluster-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/03\/hu-chunhuas-star-fading-amid-lackluster-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hu Chunhua\u2019s Leadership Prospects &#8220;Fading&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hu Chunhua\u2014aka &#8220;Little Hu,&#8221; a reference to similarities between his own career path and that of his mentor, former president Hu Jintao\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/11\/princelings-hold-sway-now-but-what-of-2017\/\">became a member of the CCP Politburo<\/a> and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/12\/all-eyes-on-new-guangdong-party-chief-hu-chunhua\/\">Party chief of Guangdong Province in late 2012<\/a>. While the leader was once <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/03\/hu-chunhua-heading-to-the-top-via-guangdong\/\">expected\u00a0to rise to the Politburo Standing Committee<\/a> in 2017, a report from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/1740596\/guangdong-party-boss-hu-chunhuas-star-fading-amid-his-lacklustre\"><strong>the South China Morning Post suggests that is now only a remote possibility<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There were considerations as to when Hu would return to Beijing as a Politburo Standing Committee member \u2026 but the prospect no longer looks so rosy,&#8221; Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences researcher Dr Peng Peng said.<\/p>\n<p>A prominent Guangzhou political columnist said: &#8220;It&#8217;s [President Xi Jinping&#8217;s ] world now. Hu has neither ties with him nor any remarkable political track record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Hu was Hebei governor, there was the melamine-tainted milk powder scandal. When he was Inner Mongolia party boss, there were mass demonstrations and environmental pollution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00a0He also has little room to experiment in deepening economic reform due to a downturn. Guangdong reported a grim outlook this year as gross domestic product grew just 7.8 per cent last year, falling short of the 8.5 per cent target. 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