The Zhao family (Chinese: 赵家人) refers to dignitaries in China, such as the top bureaucrat, the rich, leaders in-system and their offspring.
In December 2015, an article in WeChat public account described dignitaries as the Zhao family.
Soon after, the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party prohibited the use of such words as "the Zhao family".
The phrase "the Zhao family" has its origins in Lu Xun's "The True Story of Ah Q," published in 1921.
)[2] On December 19, 2015, a public account in WeChat published an article titled "The argument between Vanke and Baoneng: Barbarians in the front, and the Zhao family in the shadow" (Chinese: 万科宝能之争：门口的野蛮人，背后的赵家人) which divided the hierarchical China capital market into four ranks: retail investor, banker, plutocrat and the "Zhao family."