Zhao Shaolin

Zhao Shaolin
赵少麟
Secretary General of Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee
In office
June 1998  November 2006
Preceded byLiang Baohua
Succeeded byLi Yunfeng
Communist Party Secretary of Huaiyin
In office
September 1994  November 1997
Mayor of Huaiyin
In office
September 1992  May 1995
Personal details
BornOctober 1946 (age 78)
Yuanping City, Shanxi
NationalityChinese
Political partyChinese Communist Party (expelled)
ChildrenZhao Jin (son)
Alma materHarbin Institute of Military Engineering
ProfessionRadio engineer
Zhao Shaolin
Traditional Chinese趙少麟
Simplified Chinese赵少麟
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhào Shàolín

Zhao Shaolin (born October 1946) is a former Chinese politician who spent most of his career in Jiangsu province. Beginning in the 1990s, Zhao served as the mayor, then Communist Party Secretary, of the city of Huaiyin (now Huai'an). In 1998, he became the Secretary General of the Jiangsu provincial Party Committee, in charge of the execution of provincial party policy. He retired from politics in November 2006. Subsequently, he became vice-president of the non-profit China Aging Development Foundation. He was investigated by the Communist Party's anti-graft body in 2014 for corruption, then expelled from the Communist Party; he faces criminal charges related to bribery and foreign exchange fraud.