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Wen Jiabao is the Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. He is also the secretary of the financial work committee of the CPC central committee. His populist approach to policy and his visible public masks has made him a very popular figure within China. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1965 and start his work in this party. He is a postgraduate and an Engineer. After gaining graduation in geomechanics in Beijing, he began his career in the Gansu geology bureau. He became the chief of that bureau and Vice-minister of Geology and Mineral Resources. He is the only Director of the Party’s General Office to have served under three general secretaries. When Wen was the head assistant to General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, he made the most significant recovery as a politician. He accompanied Zhao to see demonstrating students in Tiananmen Square. During 1965, he was a strong administrator and technocrat, has earned a reputation for meticulousness, competence, and a focus on tangible results. As premier, Wen gives importance to China’s economic reforms, public health and education. He is a good communicator and is known as a “man of the people.” His popularly increased when he visited the disaster area of Sichuan Earthquake just few hours after the disaster, and he became the executive director of the earthquake relief effort’s committee immediately following the disaster. He also has a face book profile in which he gathered more popular support than any other non-American leader on the social networking site.

Damien Hirst is a famous English artist and most famous member of Young British Artists (YBA). Death is central theme of his work. He is famous for his series of work in which dead animals are preserved. He explores the uncertainty at the core of human experience like love, life, death, loyalty and betrayal through unexpected and unconventional media. His famous works are ‘Natural History’, ‘The physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living’ and mother and child divided. He is also known for spin and spot paintings. In his childhood, he is a very tough boy and many often his mother did not tolerate him. But she encourage his love of paining. After the school education, he joined Leeds College of Art and Design. Then he worked for two years on London building sites, then studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. In the second year of that college, he was the main organizer of an independent student exhibition. Due to this exhibition, he gained sponsorship from the London docklands development corporation. In early 1990s, he admitted serious drug and alcohol problems and shows wild behavior and extrovert acts. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the art collector Charles Saatchi. Afterwards he made many paintings. In 2003, he ended the relationship with Saatchi due to some misunderstandings. He lives with his girlfriend Maia Norman and has three sons. His wide-ranging practice in installations, sculpture, painting and drawing has sought to challenge the boundaries between art, science and popular culture. His energy and inventiveness, and his consistently visceral, visually arresting work, has made him a leading artist of his generation.