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My Take
Zhao Yide interests me as a study in how power is accumulated within China's vast political machine. From a small-city background in Wenling, he climbed through mayor of Wenzhou, party secretary of Hangzhou and Quzhou, deputy secretary of Hebei, and now leads Shaanxi as its Communist Party secretary. To us watching from Japan it can feel like a distant world, yet rising this far in a nation of over a billion people implies a scale of competition almost impossible to imagine. His private life stays hidden, but the trajectory itself, governing region after region on the way upward, is a story worth knowing.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Zhao Yide
- Name (Japanese)
- 趙一徳
- Reading
- ちょう・いっとく
- Born
- January 1, 1965 (age 61)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Snake
- Origin
- Wenling, People's Republic of China
- Occupation
- politician
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B6%99%E4%B8%80%E5%BE%B3
Frequently asked questions
When was Zhao Yide born?
Born January 1, 1965 (age 61).
Where is Zhao Yide from?
Zhao Yide is from Wenling, People's Republic of China.
What does Zhao Yide do?
Zhao Yide works as politician.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.