All Chinese Presidents in the Last 32 Years Are Graduates of Elite Engineering Universities

Written by Bruno Teles

Published on 17/04/2025 at 15:20

Desde 1993, todos os presidentes da China têm formação em engenharia. Entenda como isso influenciou o crescimento industrial do país e o que o Brasil pode aprender com esse modelo.

2 people reacted to this.

Technical Management at the Helm of the Second Largest Economy in the World Is Solidly Based on Engineering Education

Since 1993, all presidents of China have an engineering background. The high technical and academic standard has been maintained for over three decades, a period during which the country underwent intense industrialization, modernization, and growth.

Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping: Three Engineers in Charge

Jiang Zemin, president from 1993 to 2003, was a electrical engineer graduated from National Chiao Tung University. He served as mayor of Shanghai and minister of industries before leading the country.

His successor, Hu Jintao, graduated in hydroelectric engineering from Tsinghua University, considered the best in China. He had a prominent role in infrastructure projects, including the Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydroelectric plant in the world.

ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW

Industrial Growth Driven by Engineers

According to Anderson Correia, a full professor and former Rector of ITA, over the past 32 years, under the leadership of Chinese presidents with engineering backgrounds, the country has grown by nearly 10% per year on average. This progress was supported by industrial and technological policies articulated by leaders with technical knowledge.

In addition to the presidency, engineering is valued at all levels of public management. Annually, China graduates 3.5 million professionals in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.

The Contrast with Brazil

Brazil has never elected a president with an engineering degree. Two engineers have reached the position indirectly: Aureliano Chaves, as interim, and Itamar Franco, after the impeachment of Fernando Collor.

This contrast reveals differences in approach between the countries. While Chinese presidents have a technical background and focus on industrial development, Brazil still lacks a culture of valuing technical education in high public management.

All Chinese Presidents in the Last 32 Years Are Graduates of Elite Engineering Universities

Technical Management at the Helm of the Second Largest Economy in the World Is Solidly Based on Engineering Education

Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping: Three Engineers in Charge

Industrial Growth Driven by Engineers

The Contrast with Brazil

A village with 115 inhabitants wants new residents: it offers a house, a job, up to 44 thousand euros in benefits, almost free rent, an annual grant of 8 thousand euros for 3 years, and a 20 thousand euro incentive for businesses in the mountains of Italy.

NASA is offering US$ 750,000 to people from anywhere in the world who solve a problem that could decide survival on Mars: creating food for astronauts without relying on resupply from Earth.

Belgium will sink 23 giant concrete caissons, each weighing 22,000 tons, in the North Sea to build the world’s first artificial energy island 45 km off the coast, forming offshore electrical walls.

New microwave that can replace three appliances hits the market: Sharp launches 3-in-1 model that combines air fryer, convection oven, and heating in 0.9 cubic feet for small kitchens

While Brazil has been discussing bullet trains for 16 years, China delivers 5 new high-speed lines in 2026, surpasses 50,000 km of HSR, and moves 1 billion passengers in a single year.

While countries spend billions to draw water from the sea, a Nobel-winning scientist creates a container-sized machine that extracts up to 1,000 liters per day from dry air and uses ultrasound to release water in minutes, even in the middle of the desert.

With an 88-meter wingspan, a capacity of 250 tons, six engines, and 32 wheels, the Ukrainian giant became the greatest symbol of extreme air transport and one of the most impressive machines in aviation history.

The world’s largest living feline weighs 418 kg, is three meters long, and eats 13.6 kg of meat per day, and the liger Hercules only exists because the hybrid genetics between a lion and a tigress suppressed the two genes that would normally prevent any feline from growing beyond 300 kg.

1,050 km/h, 3,300 km range, two 30 mm cannons and missiles: the A-1 AMX was the fighter-bomber that put Brazilian engineering on another level and marked an era in the FAB.

Robots that enter tunnels, refineries, and buildings at risk of collapse to fight fires are being bought by Paraná in a batch of 26 units, after a court overturned an injunction that was blocking the acquisition in the middle of a drought.

At the end of 2025, GWM brought to Brazil a diesel pickup truck without electrification, overturning the logic of Chinese hybrids and placing the Power Trail, the cheapest mid-size diesel pickup truck in Brazil for R$ 220,000, at the center of the fight with Ranger, S10, and Rampage.

Free-to-air TV in Brazil will undergo a revolution from now on.

All Chinese Presidents in the Last 32 Years Are Graduates of Elite Engineering Universities

Technical Management at the Helm of the Second Largest Economy in the World Is Solidly Based on Engineering Education

Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping: Three Engineers in Charge

Industrial Growth Driven by Engineers

The Contrast with Brazil

A village with 115 inhabitants wants new residents: it offers a house, a job, up to 44 thousand euros in benefits, almost free rent, an annual grant of 8 thousand euros for 3 years, and a 20 thousand euro incentive for businesses in the mountains of Italy.

NASA is offering US$ 750,000 to people from anywhere in the world who solve a problem that could decide survival on Mars: creating food for astronauts without relying on resupply from Earth.

Belgium will sink 23 giant concrete caissons, each weighing 22,000 tons, in the North Sea to build the world’s first artificial energy island 45 km off the coast, forming offshore electrical walls.

New microwave that can replace three appliances hits the market: Sharp launches 3-in-1 model that combines air fryer, convection oven, and heating in 0.9 cubic feet for small kitchens

While Brazil has been discussing bullet trains for 16 years, China delivers 5 new high-speed lines in 2026, surpasses 50,000 km of HSR, and moves 1 billion passengers in a single year.

While countries spend billions to draw water from the sea, a Nobel-winning scientist creates a container-sized machine that extracts up to 1,000 liters per day from dry air and uses ultrasound to release water in minutes, even in the middle of the desert.

With an 88-meter wingspan, a capacity of 250 tons, six engines, and 32 wheels, the Ukrainian giant became the greatest symbol of extreme air transport and one of the most impressive machines in aviation history.

Brazil becomes the ‘country of inequality’ with the rich’s earnings growing almost 3 times more than the poor’s, and the wage gap reaching 13.8.

Pulp megafactory enters its heavy phase: 14,000 workers will be mobilized in the coming months in the small Brazilian town

Luciano Hang reveals invitations to take Havan to the United States, Argentina, and Paraguay, but guarantees that the expansion will remain in Brazil until all 5,500 municipalities have a store, and this year’s goal is to inaugurate until reaching 200 units.

Generation Z works, studies, and strives, but cannot afford to buy their own home because the real estate market has risen faster than salaries, and the banking system has tightened credit for those who lack stability or surplus income.

Havan customers formed a line in Blumenau (SC) since 4:30 AM this Saturday to see the megastore inspired by German half-timbered architecture; some people traveled from cities like Rio do Sul, Brusque, Corupá, and Timbó.

The world’s largest living feline weighs 418 kg, is three meters long, and eats 13.6 kg of meat per day, and the liger Hercules only exists because the hybrid genetics between a lion and a tigress suppressed the two genes that would normally prevent any feline from growing beyond 300 kg.

1,050 km/h, 3,300 km range, two 30 mm cannons and missiles: the A-1 AMX was the fighter-bomber that put Brazilian engineering on another level and marked an era in the FAB.

Robots that enter tunnels, refineries, and buildings at risk of collapse to fight fires are being bought by Paraná in a batch of 26 units, after a court overturned an injunction that was blocking the acquisition in the middle of a drought.

At the end of 2025, GWM brought to Brazil a diesel pickup truck without electrification, overturning the logic of Chinese hybrids and placing the Power Trail, the cheapest mid-size diesel pickup truck in Brazil for R$ 220,000, at the center of the fight with Ranger, S10, and Rampage.

Free-to-air TV in Brazil will undergo a revolution from now on.