Zhao Zhongyu (1932.11 -) was born in Wujin County, Jiangsu Province in 1932. He started working in August 1949 and entered Liaoning Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. in 1950.
In 1965, he was selected to participate in the construction of the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Base in Sichuan Province, serving as deputy section chief, section chief, and deputy director of the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Labor Department; deputy commander of the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Production Headquarters; and deputy manager of the Panzhihua Iron and Steel Company; He joined the Communist Party of China in December 1978; on June 30, 1983, the Ministry of Metallurgy appointed Zhao Zhongyu as the general manager of Panzhihua Iron and Steel Company, and later served as chairman of Panzhihua Iron and Steel Group and other positions; senior economist.
Zhao Zhongyu has long been engaged in the operation and management of large-scale metallurgical enterprises, and has rich practical experience and systematic theoretical attainments; he insists on relying on science and technology to develop enterprises, and has brought Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.’s new vanadium-titanium magnetite smelting technology to the international leading level. The scientific and technological research has won 647 scientific research results at all levels, 51 domestic and foreign patents, 123 invention progress awards, added more than 500 million yuan in benefits, earned 350 million yuan in foreign exchange from exports, and paid more than 5 billion yuan in national profits and taxes, creating a scientific and technological efficiency model. The road to develop enterprises; due to his outstanding contributions and outstanding achievements, he has been named outstanding managers, outstanding entrepreneurs, and model workers by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government since 1985, and was elected as a representative and deputy to the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. A representative of the Eighth National People's Congress, he was named the National Outstanding Entrepreneur in 1990 and won the "Golden Globe Award"; he began to enjoy special subsidies from the national government in 1993, and was named a National Model Worker in 1995. He officially retired in 1998.
Zhao Zhongyu also served as the vice chairman of the China Metallurgical Modern Management Society, the vice chairman of the Sichuan Labor Society, the vice chairman of the Sichuan Entrepreneurs Association, etc. In 2003, he served as the president of the Metallurgical Branch of the China Labor Society. In 2008, he was appointed as Honorary President.
In 2011, he was honored as one of the "Ten Communist Party Members Who Touched Panzhihua".