The first "Qian Hu--The Pet Family" shops opened in Malaysia, China and Thailand in 2004.
Guo is one of three rotating CEOs, the others are Eric Xu and Ken Hu.
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To keep in closer touch with customers, Qian Hu began selling pet supplies and opening stores.
Chinese sources say Mr Hu spoke positively of the experiment during a visit to the area.
Credit much of Qian Hu's hard-fought success to the 45-year-old Yap's tireless promotional efforts.
"The government may have underestimated the potential fallout in the international financial markets, " says analyst Hu.
Mr Hu wants to consolidate his power and begin grooming his successors at next year's congress.
Mr Hu may take comfort from the recent findings of government statisticians in Beijing.
Mr. Hu is using the duplication to justify central control that planning naturally contemplates.
Her grandfather Hu Zhongchi was a famous translator and editor at Shen Bao, a Shanghai paper.
This, however, will not prevent him from being a powerful potential rival to Mr Hu.
But most recently, he was Vice President under Hu and Chairman of the Chinese Military.
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Chinese nationals Zhang and Hu will be deported at the end of their sentences.
"In the final analysis, government reform and political reform are inseparable, " Ms Hu stresses.
Hu and Xie hit if off and there was immediate chemistry between the two entrepreneurs.
Under this arrangement, everyone knows who is boss - Hu cannot challenge the president.
Hu graduated from prestigious Qinghua University in 1965 with a degree in hydraulic engineering.
But Hu had made her name divining the boundaries of free expression in China.
Mr Hu appears to worry that his remaining years in office could be marred by turmoil.
"That's the emperor mentality, " says Fred Hu, chief China economist for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong.
Hu Way (Poly Museum assistant): (through translator) There are two dragons here on the side handles.
Judging exactly how hard to push has, so far, been one of Ms Hu's greatest strengths.
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At a March 2013 session of the legislature, Xi will probably succeed Hu as president.
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