AGE: 65
OCCUPATION: President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic
Games
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1
PRO: As the head honcho in charge of the Beijing Olympics, Qi has taken on the gargantuan task of overseeing the construction of new buildings, cleaning up the streets, and generally modernizing China's capital city so it will shine under media scrutiny.
CON: Sleek new buildings can't hide China's noxious pollution — nor its Communist government's refusal to address the country's human rights violations.