Zhao Hongzhu (; born July 1947) is a retired Chinese politician and a previous member of the Chinese Communist Party's national leadership. Zhao served as the Deputy Secretary of the

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) is the highest supervisory organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCDI is elected and supervised by the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, CCP National Congress. ...

(CCDI), the Communist Party's anti-corruption agency, as well as a Secretary of the Central Secretariat. Zhao spent his early career in Inner Mongolia before being transferred to work for the Ministry of Supervision and the CCDI in Beijing. He was the Communist Party Secretary of

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province from 2007 to 2012.

Biography

Zhao was born in July 1947 in

Ningcheng County Ningcheng County ( Mongolian: ; zh, s=宁城县) is a county of southeastern Inner Mongolia, China, bordering Liaoning province to the east. It is under the administration of Chifeng City. The daohugouthallus extinct genus of lichen was found ...

in north China's

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of China. Its border includes two-thirds of the length of China's China–Mongolia border, border with the country of Mongolia. ...

Autonomous Region. He is a member of the Han ethnic group and his father was a farmer. He graduated from the Central Party School and began work in Inner Mongolia as a logistics officer. He then entered the Hulunbuir League Nomadic Administration Bureau. Thereafter, he was named to the leadership council of a local ranch, serving as its Disciplinary Secretary. In 1980, Zhao entered the party's Organization Department in

Hinggan League The Hinggan League; tr. ''Hinggan Aimag'', Mongol Cyrillic: Хянган аймаг is a prefecture-level subdivision of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China. It borders Hulun Buir to the north, the Republic of Mongolia and Xi ...

. He became the head of the department in 1985 and in 1988, he became the deputy party chief of Hinggan League. He left Inner Mongolia in 1992 to take on a job in the research office of the

(CCDI). In 1994, he became the head of the General Office serving the CCDI. In April 1998, Zhao became the Deputy Minister of Supervision of the People's Republic of China. His tenure lasted until July 2002. In November 2002, he became a standing committee member of the CCDI and, in November 2003, became also the Executive Deputy Head of the

Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party The Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the human resource management department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that c ...

. Zhao was appointed

Party Secretary In politics, a party secretary is a senior official within a political party with responsibility for the organizational and daily political work. In most parties, the party secretary is second in rank to the party leader (or party chairman). In s ...

of Zhejiang in March 2007, taking the office vacated by

Xi Jinping Xi Jinping, pronounced (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (China), chairman of the Central Military Commission ...

, who went on to become party chief of Shanghai. He stepped down as party chief of Zhejiang in November 2012 to take up the number two role in the Communist Party's top anti-corruption body in the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, under Secretary

Wang Qishan Wang Qishan (; ; born 19 July 1948) is a Chinese retired politician who was one of the leading members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Wang gained prominence in China's financial sector in the late 1980s. In 1994, Wang became the governor ...

. As was customary for the top-ranked CCDI Deputy Secretary, Zhao also became a Secretary of the Central Secretariat at the 18th Party Congress. Since joining the CCDI, Zhao has taken on the role of the leader of a coordination group in charge of implementing specific aspects of the reforms of the discipline and supervision system. Zhao was also put in charge of the Office for the Supervision of Discipline Personnel, an internal audit and control organ of the CCDI. In 2013, Zhao was also named deputy leader of the Central Leading Group for Advancing Mass Line Education. According to Hong Kong–based news magazine ''Chengming'', Zhao was the top official present when former official Ling Jihua was taken in for investigation. Zhao is a member of the 17th and 18th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party. He is also a member of the 18th Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

References

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