Zhao Yong (politician)

Zhao Yong
赵勇
Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Hebei
In office
November 2011 – October 2016
Party SecretaryZhou Benshun
Zhao Kezhi
Preceded byFu Zhifang
Succeeded byLi Ganjie
Personal details
BornJanuary 1963 (age 61)
Yiyang, Hunan, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
ResidenceShijiazhuang
Alma materHunan Water Works and Hydroelectric College

Zhao Yong (Chinese: 赵勇; pinyin: Zhào Yǒng; born January 1963) is a Chinese politician. Zhao is a career politician with extensive experience in the Communist Youth League, and previously served as the party chief of Tangshan, the executive vice governor of Hebei, and the Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary of Hebei. Zhao was a controversial figure who was criticized for his role in the censorship of the Bingdian column of the Youth League's flagship newspaper, and for a massive project he undertook in Caofeidian that ended in failure.