Back in the day, former president Hu Jintao had a nickname; The Tiger of Lhasa.
Hu, his last name and the Chinese character for tiger shares the same pronunciation.
As the party secretary of Xizang, he stabilized the situation in Xizang after the disastrous ethnic appeasement policies of Hu Yaobang, which directly led the rise of separatism in the region during the 1980s