Hu Haifeng was the president of Nuctech, a Tsinghua University-owned company created in the late 1990s to make large scanners for shipping, trucking containers and railway cars, as well as luggage scanners and metal detectors for airports.
Hu Jintao and Liu Yongqing have two grown children – a son named Hu Haifeng and a daughter named Hu Haiqing, both of whom were educated at the Tsinghua University.
Hu Haifeng, son of former President Hu Jintao, was promoted in 2009 to the powerful role of Secretary of the Tsinghua Holdings branch of the Communist Party; it was unclear in early 2014 whether he still held that role.
Leading Chinese web portals, Sina and NetEase, could not be opened for several hours after they posted reports about the company linked to Hu Haifeng.