Lin Ruo (; July 19, 1924 – October 7, 2012) was a Chinese politician who served as

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Biography

Lin was a native of

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, Guangdong. He joined the

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(CCP) in May 1945. In July 1945, he enrolled in the

Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University (, abbreviated SYSU and colloquially known in Chinese as Zhongda), also known as Zhongshan University, is a national key public research university located in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It was founded in 1924 by and nam ...

School of Literature. In 1947, he traveled to the Dong River guerilla warfare region to provide political guidance. In March 1950, he was named the head of the CCP Guangdong

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Local Committee Policy Research Office Group, as well as local positions in

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and

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. In 1952, he was named party committee secretary of Dongguan. Lin was attacked during the

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. In February 1971, he was named to the

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local party committee, and in 1973 became the deputy party secretary and deputy Revolutionary Committee director of the

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newspaper. In 1975, Lin became the

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municipal party committee first secretary, and in 1982 transferred to become the Guangdong provincial party committee first secretary. From 1985 to 1991, Lin served as the Guangdong provincial party committee secretary. From 1990 through December 1996, he served as chairman and party group secretary of the Guangdong provincial people's congress standing committee. He retired in September 2004.林若：广东改革开放敢为人先
/ref> Lin died on October 7, 2012 in Guangzhou following an illness. Lin Ruo was a delegate to each

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from the 12th through the 17th, a member of the

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and 13th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party, and a delegate to the

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and

8th 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

National People's Congress The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (NPC; ), or simply the National People's Congress, is constitutionally the supreme state authority and the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. With 2, ...

es.

References

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