Zhao Yong (politician)

Zhao Yong 赵勇
Deputy Party Secretary of Hebei province
In office November 2011 – October 2016
Secretary	Zhou Benshun; Zhao Kezhi
Preceded by	Fu Zhifang
Succeeded by	Li Ganjie
Personal details
Born	January 1963 (age 54) Yiyang, Hunan, China
Political party	Communist Party of China
Residence	Shijiazhuang
Alma mater	Hunan 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 deputy party chief 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.

Zhao Yong was born in Yiyang, Hunan in 1963. He attended Hunan Water Works and Hydroelectric College, earning a college diploma. He was assigned by the state to work in Li County, Hunan, where he began working for a town administrative office. In 1985 he entered the department of civil affairs in Hunan province. In 1988 he entered Hunan University and earned a Masters of Business Administration. In November 1991, he became deputy chief of the Hunan Communist Youth League (CYL) organization. In 1994 he entered the central organization of the CYL, eventually joining the CYL Secretariat; he served under CYL leaders Li Keqiang and Zhou Qiang. While at the Youth League he earned a doctorate in business administration at Renmin University of China.

Bingdian (冰点) is a column published on the China Youth Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Youth League. While the column was popular with the newspaper's readership, some articles published on the column earned scorn from the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China and officials within the Youth League. In July 2004, author and Youth Daily columnist Lu Yuegang published an article criticizing Zhao Yong alleging that Zhao had been unduly interfering in the contents of the column. The conflict between the newspaper publishers, Zhao Yong, and other authorities eventually led to the suspension of the column on the newspaper.

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