Jin Yinhuan (; March 1952 – October 2008) was a Chinese politician from Shanxi province. Born in

Yangqu County Yangqu County () is a county of Shanxi Province, North China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Taiyuan, the capital of the province, and is both its northernmost and easternmost county-level division. History In 19 ...

Shanxi Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...

province, she joined the Chinese Communist Party in May 1971. She was one of the top Yangqu County officials during the latter stages of the

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. In 1978 she became the head of the

Communist Youth League The Communist Youth League of China (CYLC; also known as the Young Communist League of China or simply the Communist Youth League or CYL) is a people's organization of the People's Republic of China for youth between the ages of 14 and 28, r ...

organization in the provincial capital

Taiyuan Taiyuan; Mandarin pronunciation: (Jin Chinese, Taiyuan Jin: /tʰai˦˥ ye˩˩/) is the capital of Shanxi, China. Taiyuan is the political, economic, cultural and international exchange center of Shanxi Province. It is an industrial base foc ...

, before being elevated to head the provincial CYL organization in 1985 at the age of 33. She then served as the Deputy Party Secretary of

Xinzhou Xinzhou, ancient name Xiurong (), is a prefecture-level city occupying the north-central section of Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei to the east, Shaanxi to the west, and Inner Mongolia to the northwest. As ...

, the Deputy Party Secretary of

, and then the Party Secretary of

Shuozhou Shuozhou is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the northwest. It is situated along the upper reaches of the Fen River. The prefecture as a whole has an area of about and, 2010 PRC Census, ...

, the highest office in the city. By 2000, Jin took on the post of Secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission, heading anti-graft work in the province, and was elevated to the party's provincial Standing Committee, in practice the top ruling council of Shanxi. In 2005 she became the President of the Shanxi Provincial Party School. Jin became the Deputy Party Secretary of Shanxi province in October 2006, and the Chairwoman of the provincial Political Consultative Conference, a largely ceremonial post that nonetheless made her a full provincial-ministerial level official. In October 2008, Jin died in a car accident while travelling on the expressway between Xinzhou and Taiyuan. She was travelling back from Xinzhou after visiting on government business. She was 56 years old. In her official obituary, she was said to have "died while on the job." Jin was an alternate member of the

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and a member of the 16th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. She had one son.

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