Lin Mingyu (; October 1937 – 6 April 2019) was a Chinese politician. He served as

Communist Party Secretary A Party Committee Secretary () is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the ''de facto'' highest political office of its area of jurisdictio ...

Haikou Haikou (; ), also spelled as Hoikow is the capital and most populous city of the Chinese province of Hainan. Haikou city is situated on the northern coast of Hainan, by the mouth of the Nandu River. The northern part of the city is on the Ha ...

, the capital of

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

province, and vice chairman of the Hainan

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC, zh, 中国人民政治协商会议), also known as the People's PCC (, ) or simply the PCC (), is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China and a central part of ...

and the Hainan Provincial People's Congress.

Biography

Lin was born in October 1937 in

Danzhou Danzhou () is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of the Chinese island province of Hainan. Although called a "city", Danzhou administers a large area which was called Dan County or Danxian () until 1993. The administrative seat and urban ...

, China. He participated in the

Chinese Communist Revolution The Chinese Communist Revolution, officially known as the Chinese People's War of Liberation in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and also known as the National Protection War against the Communist Rebellion in the Republic of China (ROC ...

as a 10-year-old child, and joined the Communist Party in 1960. After graduating from Hainan Overseas Chinese High School, he studied in the Department of Chinese of

Minzu University of China Minzu University of China (MUC, ) is a national public university in Haidian District, Beijing, China designated for ethnic minorities in China. MUC was selected as one of national key universities to directly receive funding from Double First ...

from 1958 to 1962. Lin worked for the government of Hainan (then a prefecture of

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

province) after university. He became Party Secretary of

Lingshui Li Autonomous County Língshuǐ Li Autonomous County is an autonomous county in Hainan, China. It is one of the six autonomous counties of Hainan with a postal code of 572400, and in 1999 a population of 318,691, largely made up of the Li people. Notably the beautif ...

in January 1977, and was promoted to Party Secretary of Haikou City in December 1983. In 1988, when Hainan was elevated to the status of province, Haikou was designated as its capital and Lin became the first Party Secretary of the provincial capital. In 1990, Lin was appointed acting secretary-general of Hainan Province. He served as Vice Chairman of the Hainan

from 1993 to 1998, and as Vice Chairman of the Hainan Provincial People's Congress from 1998 to 2003. He retired in December 2003. Lin died on 6 April 2019 in Haikou, at the age of 81.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lin, Mingyu 1937 births 2019 deaths Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hainan People from Haikou Political office-holders in Hainan People's Republic of China politicians from Hainan Minzu University of China alumni