Zhang Haibo

Zhang Haibo (; born April 1964) is a Chinese jurist and senior judge who currently serves as the Party Secretary and President of the Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province, as well as President of the Guangdong Judges Association. He previously held senior judicial positions in Tianjin, Gansu, and the Binhai New Area.

Biography Zhang Haibo was born in Yutian County, Hebei, in April 1964. He studied law at the China University of Political Science and Law beginning in 1981 and graduated in 1985. Immediately after completing his studies, he began his career in the Tianjin Municipal People’s Procuratorate Branch, working as a cadre, clerk, and assistant procurator until 1996. He later served as a procurator and deputy division-level procurator at the First Branch of the Tianjin Municipal People’s Procuratorate.

From 1997 to 2000, Zhang became deputy head of the Public Prosecution Department of the First Branch Procuratorate, while undertaking in-service postgraduate studies in procedural law at the China University of Political Science and Law. He subsequently held a series of leadership roles within the same branch, including director of the Arrest Approval Department and director of the Dereliction-of-Duty and Infringement Department. During this period, he also held temporary assignments as deputy procurator of the Jiuquan Municipal People’s Procuratorate in Gansu and as deputy director of the Fourth Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office of the Tianjin Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection.

In 2006, he became deputy director of the Anti-Dereliction and Infringement Bureau of the First Branch Procuratorate, and in 2007 he was promoted to deputy chief procurator of the branch. From 2009 to 2013, he served as deputy chief procurator and deputy Party secretary of the Binhai New Area People’s Procuratorate. Zhang became Party secretary of the Binhai New Area People’s Procuratorate in 2013 and served as its chief procurator from 2013 to 2014. He subsequently returned to the First Branch Procuratorate as chief procurator and Party secretary, and in 2015 was appointed deputy procurator-general and deputy Party secretary of the Tianjin Municipal People’s Procuratorate. He then assumed his current position as Party secretary and President of the Higher People’s Court of Guangdong Province.