Chao Shou-po
Taiwanese politician
Chao Shou-po (Chinese: 趙守博; pinyin: Zhào Shǒubó, born 1 March 1941) is a Taiwanese lawyer and politician who has served as Governor of Taiwan Province and Commissioner of the Chinese Professional Baseball League. He is also a prominent leader in the World Scout Movement.
He has served as a Presidium Member of the Central Advisory Committee of the Kuomintang, and has taught law at several Taiwanese universities. Chao was the president of the Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Foundation Management Committee and the chairman of the Foundation of the Scouts of China (Taiwan). He has held many government posts including Labor Minister, Secretary-General of the Cabinet, Minister without Portfolio and Governor of the Province of Taiwan. Chao served the Ma Ying-jeou administration as senior adviser.
Early life and education
Chao Shou-po was born in March 1941 to a rural farming family in what is now Lukang Township, Changhua County. He began his schooling in 1947 and graduated from the Tsaokang Elementary School of Lukang Township in 1953. In the same year, through a competitive entrance examination, he was admitted to and enrolled at the prestigious Taichung First High School in Taichung. In 1956 he finished his junior high school there and again through a competitive entrance examination he entered the senior department of the same Taichung First High School.
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