And the most famous dish in the capital is named after it: the Peking roast duck, a dish said to be first written into a recipe book in 1330 by Hu Sihui, an inspector of the imperial kitchens when the capital of China was in the city of Nanjing.
In the past ten years, Chinese paintings have enjoyed an average 25% increase in value annually, Hu said.
"Every person's experience is different, but most have less influence than before, " Mr. Hu said in an interview.
Training at HU and in the field can last for two years before a prospective franchisee gets a store.
China will "endeavor" to cut emissions of carbon dioxide -- the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change -- by "a notable margin" in coming years, Hu said, adding that China also will "vigorously develop renewable energy and nuclear energy" with the goal of increasing the share of non-fossil fuels in total energy consumption to 15 percent by 2020.
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While the trend in China parallels that in the U.S., it is "much more rapid, " says Frank Hu, an associate professor in the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health, who has conducted his own studies of the phenomenon.
So far this is mostly equipment and supplies shipped overseas for fish fanciers and wholesalers, and Qian Hu has invested in aquarium-gear providers in the U.K. and India.
Pet ownership is not well established in Asia, and Qian Hu has put a good deal of energy into educating its customers and investors about why people might want pets in the first place.
Hu, who works in PR, doesn't think the Lunar New Year will be any less enjoyable this year because of the campaigns to reduce waste and fireworks.
To keep in closer touch with customers, Qian Hu began selling pet supplies and opening stores.
For Qian Hu, the key lies in keeping the fish healthy in the first place: "A disease that causes no problem in the fish pond can bloom into the open during travel and cause most or all of the fish to arrive dead, " says Yap.
Urging an early resumption of long-stalled six-party talks committed to reining in North Korea's nuclear program, Assistant Foreign Minister Hu Zhengyue told Xinhua that "the peninsula's denuclearization and the normalization of relations" was in all parties' interest.
Hu graduated from prestigious Qinghua University in 1965 with a degree in hydraulic engineering.
At a Vanguard supermarket in an unfashionable part of Shenzhen, manager Hu Fan tries to satisfy traditional and modern tastes.
The winning team - Samson Danziger, Daniel Hu, Anthony Landau and Charlie Hu - cracked the Trifid code in 44 hours and 20 minutes.
"The government may have underestimated the potential fallout in the international financial markets, " says analyst Hu.
Mr Hu says that China will go further in the coming years, by trying to cut the carbon emissions per dollar of GDP produced, for example by developing renewable and nuclear energy.
The mall was initially headed by Dongguan native Alex Hu Guirong, who became a billionaire in the instant noodle business, and later sold to the Founders Group, a conglomerate set up by Peking University.
The first "Qian Hu--The Pet Family" shops opened in Malaysia, China and Thailand in 2004.
In May 2010, the Company acquired the operating concession of Hu-Yu Expressway (Shanghai Section).
Another report by Chinese and international experts led by China CDC deputy director Yang Gonghuan and Tsinghua professor Hu Angang projects that the deaths attributable to tobacco in China will rise to 3.5 million per year by 2030.
Zhu "knows the trip won't be easy, but he is amazingly calm, " says Fred Hu, head of Asia Economic Research for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong.
"Zhu said he knows the trip won't be easy, but he is amazingly calm, " says Fred Hu, head of Asia economic research for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and a former student of Zhu's at Qinghua.
Today, 25 years after it began, Qian Hu Corp. is one of the biggest exporters of tropical fish in the world and operates 12 stores around Asia.
Hu Xiaomei, director of the Honghuagang district drug-control office in Zunyi, says separating the punishment of traffickers from the treatment of drug users was crucial for making the new approach work.
Nonetheless, Henry Hu, who teaches securities law at the University of Texas law school in Austin, says Spitzer should have avoided even the appearance of impropriety.
Hu Angang of Tsinghua University estimates that half of Chinese growth per person in 1978-98 can be attributed to the increase in capital stock per head.
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