Chao Zhefu (; 3 December 1894 – 13 December 1970) was a Chinese educator and politician. He was born in

Qingfeng County Qingfeng County is a county located in the northeast of Henan province, bordering the provinces of Hebei to the northwest and Shandong to the east. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Puyang. In the Han Dynasty, Dunqiu ...

Zhili Zhili, alternately romanized as Chihli, was a northern administrative region of China since the 14th-century that lasted through the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty until 1911, when the region was dissolved, converted to a province, and renamed ...

province (now in

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

), in 1894. He served as Governor of

Pingyuan Province Pingyuan () was a former province of the People's Republic of China that existed between 1949 and 1952. Its capital was Xinxiang, now in Henan province. History Pingyuan Province was established on August 20, 1949, comprising adjoining prefectur ...

from 1949 to 1952. After Pingyuan was abolished in 1952, he became Vice-Governor of Shandong Province in 1953. He served as the president of

Shandong University Shandong University (, abbreviated as Shanda, , English abbreviation SDU) is a public research comprehensive university in Jinan, Shandong with one campus in Weihai, Shandong and one campus in Qingdao, Shandong and is supported directly by ...

in Qingdao from 1956 to 1958. He died in Jinan in 1970.

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1894 births 1970 deaths Presidents of Shandong University Political office-holders in Shandong Vice-governors of Shandong {{academic-administrator-stub