Head of the economic empire

Chinas president Hu Jintao achieves the second rank in the list. The People's Republic of China is one of the few countries, which are winners of the financial crisis. That is why the importance of China as an industrial location grows more and more,as well as the acceptance of its president. President Hu Jintao holds, besides his job as the head of state, also the position of the chairman of the central military commission.