Hu position is that the Chinese socialist system is superior to other systems. In a July 2011 article for the ''People's Forum'', Hu wrote that: "The CPC has always adhered to the mass line, rooting itself among the people in order to make democratic decisions. This is manifested in the superiority of the socialist policy-making system with Chinese characteristics. This policy-making system is based on the mass line of the Party, that is from the masses, to the masses and putting into practice what has been learned from practice." Hu is also a proponent of
China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) writing that they are the backbone of national growth in China. His advocacy of China's SOEs has led HU to be described as part of the
Chinese New Left. This puts him at odds with Chinese former Premier
Li Keqiang who favors reducing State intervention in the economy and has said that the Government should reduce its role in the economy even if doing so feels "like cutting one's wrist." In 2012 Hu co-wrote a paper calling for the forcible assimilation of ethnic
Uighurs in Xinjiang in an effort to create a standardized Chinese "state-race." Although this hard line policy was initially criticized within China it later gained popularity as a policy proposal. This drew strong criticism within China from social media sites and Chinese academics such as
Yu Jianrong. In August 2018 he was criticised in an open letter written by Tsinghua University alumni calling for the university to fire Hu. The letter accused him of using "self-serving criteria" in his research so as to exaggerate claims of China's greatness. The letter states that Hu espoused an exaggerated sense of national superiority and
overt nationalism that, according to the letter, harms
China's foreign relations whilst also misleading the public. ==See also==