Mdm Hu has been Executive Deputy Procurator-General, Deputy Party Leadership Group Secretary and Procuratorial Committee Member of the Supreme People's Procuratorate since June 2010. She is also a grand procurator of the first rank. Between 2004 and 2010, she was a Standing Committee Member of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee as well as the Organization Department Director, and concurrently President of the Party School of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and Dean of Guangdong Institute of Public Administration in June 2007. She was elected Chairman of the Guangdong Public Administration Society in November 2007.

Mdm Hu had held various positions in the Ministry of Justice including Deputy Political Department Director (municipal-level) (1995 - 1996); Party Leadership Group Member and Deputy Political Department Director (1996 - 2001); as well as Vice-Minister and Party Leadership Group Member (2001 - 2004). She also became a member of the National Defense Mobilization Committee in May 2003.

Mdm Hu received teacher training in Philosophy in the Southwest University of Political Science and Law between 1978 and 1982, and furthered her study in the Law Faculty of the University between 1982 and 1985, specialized in the History of Chinese Legal Philosophy, for which she obtained a Master's degree in Law. Upon graduation, she started her teaching career in the University (1985 - 1991). She later took up the posts of Associate Professor as well as Deputy Secretary and Secretary of the Party Committee (1991 - 1995).