Those honoured in this way included Hu Jintao, president of China from 2003 to 2013, and ex-premier Zhu Rongji, who spearheaded groundbreaking economic policy in the 1990s. Li Ruihuan, former ...

Footage shows former Chinese leader Hu Jintao being accompanied off stage at the Communist Party congress, where he was sitting next to President Xi Jinping. Beijing didn’t return questions on ...