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In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhao.
Zhao Leji
赵乐际
Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
In office
25 October 2017 – 23 October 2022
DeputyYang Xiaodu
General SecretaryXi Jinping
Preceded byWang Qishan
Succeeded byLi Xi
Head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party
In office
19 November 2012 – 28 October 2017
DeputyChen Xi
General SecretaryXi Jinping
Preceded byLi Yuanchao
Succeeded byChen Xi
Communist Party Secretary of Shaanxi
In office
25 March 2007 – 19 November 2012
Preceded byLi Jianguo
Succeeded byZhao Zhengyong
Communist Party Secretary of Qinghai
In office
19 August 2003 – 26 March 2007
Preceded bySu Rong
Succeeded byQiang Wei
Personal details
Born (1957-03-08) 8 March 1957 (age 67)
Xining, Qinghai, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party (1975–present)
RelationsZhao Leqin (brother),
Former Party Secretary of Guilin
Alma materPeking University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese赵乐际
Traditional Chinese趙樂際
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhào Lèjì
Wade–GilesChao Lê-chi
IPA[ʈʂâʊ lɤ̂.tɕî]

Zhao Leji (Chinese: 赵乐际; pinyin: Zhào Lèjì; born 8 March 1957)[1] is a senior Chinese leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who is the third-ranking member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, the party's top decision-making body.

In his earlier political career, he served as the Communist Party Secretary of Qinghai, the party secretary of Shaanxi, and the head of the Organization Department of the CCP. He entered the Politburo in 2012 and was promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee five years later. Between 2017 and 2022, he was the secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's top anti-corruption body.

Biography

Early life

Zhao Leji was born in Xining, Qinghai province. His parents were from Xi'an, Shaanxi province. The family moved to Qinghai as part of the aid the frontiers programs of the Mao years. During the later years of the Cultural Revolution, Zhao went to the countryside to perform manual labour on a commune. After working there for about a year, Zhao returned to the city to become a communications assistant at the Commerce Department of Qinghai province.[citation needed]

Zhao joined the CCP in 1975 and entered Peking University in 1977 as a gongnongbing student; he studied philosophy there until January 1980. He then spent three years teaching at the Qinghai School of Commerce and overseeing the Communist Youth League wing of the provincial department of commerce. In 1985, he was transferred to a Qinghai-based metal products company to be its party secretary. In April 1986, he became deputy head of the provincial department of commerce.[citation needed]

Qinghai

Zhao entered the provincial government in 1993, becoming part of the inner circle of then Qinghai party secretary Yin Kesheng. He was then elevated to vice-governor, then CCP Secretary of his hometown Xining. He acceded to the post of governor in 1999 at age 42, becoming the youngest provincial governor in the country at the time. Having 'jumped' several levels in a short period of time, Zhao's upward trajectory began to slow by the turn of the century. Zhao became party secretary of Qinghai in 2003 after having spent nearly five years in the Governor's office. Part of his inability to move to a more economically prosperous and more politically visible province was attributed to his Shaanxi background. He spoke in Shaanxi dialect even at government meetings.[2]

Zhao's tenure in Qinghai was marked by rapid economic growth, and a tripling of the province's GDP from the time he took office as Governor to when he left as party secretary in 2007. It was said that Zhao took a relatively soft approach on ethnic minority issues and took on environmentally conscious investment projects. His achievements in Qinghai were lauded by the party's central leadership.[2]

Shaanxi

In 2007, Zhao was transferred to become party secretary in his parents' home province of Shaanxi, having taken on the top jobs in both his 'native' province and the province of his birth, breaking an unspoken rule in the Communist Party that party secretaries should never hail from the province they are native to. This was seen as an indication of the trust shown to Zhao by the central leadership. In 2008, Shaanxi's GDP growth figures hit 15%, becoming one of only two provincial-level divisions to set sights on GDP growth rates of over 13%. In Shaanxi, Zhao oversaw the expansion and development of the GuanZhong-TianShui(关中-天水) economic belt.[2]

After the 18th National Congress of the CCP in November 2012, he was appointed member of the Politburo and head of the Organization Department of the CCP.[3]

Zhao was a member of the 16th and 17th Central Committee and the 18th Politburo of the CCP.[4]

Politburo Standing Committee

Zhao was chosen to be a member of the 19th Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision-making body, at the 1st Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the CCP on 25 October 2017.[5] In the same Session, he succeeded Wang Qishan to become the Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's highest internal-control institution that has been noted for executing Xi's anti-corruption campaign.[6] According to The Wall Street Journal, Zhao "has been taking a largely hands-off approach during his time in office and barely involved in making decisions on investigations".[7]

Following the first plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, Zhao was reappointed to the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[8]

Notes

References

  1. ^ 小山 (2017-10-16). 19大前入常名单满天飞 新说法指陈敏尔被忍痛割舍 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  2. ^ a b c 新任中共组织部长赵乐际的背景. Boxun via Zhou Yahui (in Chinese (China)). 2012-11-16. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  3. ^ "Zhao Leji appointed head of CPC Organization Department". People's Daily. Xinhua News Agency. 2012-11-19. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  4. ^ "China Vitae : Biography of Zhao Leji". chinavitae.com. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
  5. ^ Wen, Philip; Blanchard, Ben (2017-10-24). "China unveils new leadership line-up with no clear successor to Xi". Reuters. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  6. ^ Chow, Chung-yan (2017-10-25). "China's new leadership team unveiled: Zhao Leji named as anti-graft chief while Xi Jinping elevates trusted deputy to top military role". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
  7. ^ Zhai, Chun Han Wong and Keith. "China's Leaders: Xi Jinping and His Men". WSJ. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  8. ^ "Communique of the first plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee". www.gov.cn.
Government offices
Preceded by Governor of Qinghai
1999–2003 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Head of the Central Organization Department
2012–2017 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Communist Party Secretary of Shaanxi
2007–2012 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Communist Party Secretary of Qinghai
2003–2007 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Lv Xingguo
 Communist Party Secretary of Xining
1997–1999 		Succeeded by
Li Jincheng
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