Ling Yun

Ling Yun
Traditional Chinese	凌雲
Simplified Chinese	凌云
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Líng Yún

Ling Yun
Ling Yun
	凌云
1st Minister of State Security
	In office; June 1983 – September 1985
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	Jia Chunwang
Personal details
Born	Wu Peilin; 29 June 1917; Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China
Died	15 March 2018 (aged 100); Beijing, China
Political party	Communist Party of China

Ling Yun (Chinese: 凌云; 29 June 1917 – 15 March 2018), born as Wu Peilin (吴沛霖), was a politician of the People's Republic of China, who served as the first Minister of State Security.

Biography

Ling Yun was born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang on 29 June 1917. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in April 1938. After a period of political activism in Shanxi province, he arrived in the central party base in Yan'an, Shaanxi, in 1939. Here he joined and advanced in the ranks of the Central Department of Social Affairs, led, at the time, by Kang Sheng.

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China and dissolution of the Social Affairs Department, he served in the public security sector, first in Ji’nan, Shandong, and beginning in 1952 in the Ministry of Public Security, where he advanced to the post of vice-minister. Ling Yun was Minister of State Security from June 1983 to September 1985.[1]

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References

国家安全部原部长凌云逝世，享年101岁 (in Chinese); accessed 22 March 2018.

Government offices
Preceded by None	Minister of State Security 1983–1985	Succeeded by Jia Chunwang

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[1] 国家安全部原部长凌云逝世，享年101岁 (in Chinese); accessed 22 March 2018.