Lin Shusen (born December 1946) is a politician and government official in the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. He was elected Governor of

Guizhou Province ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = , image_map = Guizhou in China (+all claims hatched).svg , mapsize = 275px , map_alt = Map showing the location of Guizhou Province , map_caption = Map s ...

in 2007 and 2008. He was also

Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary In modern politics of China, Chinese politics, a Deputy Party Committee Secretary (; also translated as Deputy Party Secretary, deputy party chief, vice party chief) serves as the lieutenant to the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, ...

. Prior to that he was CCP Committee Secretary and Mayor of

Guangzhou Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...

, capital of

Guangdong Province ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

Biography

Lin was born in

Shantou Shantou, Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 20 ...

, Guangdong, and graduated from the

Guangdong University of Technology The Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT; ) is a provincial public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The university is affiliated with and sponsored by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government. The university offers a range of ...

. He has served as the secretary of the CCP

municipal committee, and the chairman of the standing committee of the Guangzhou People's Congress.He has been an alternate member of the

16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was in session from 2002 to 2007. It held seven plenary sessions. It was set in motion by the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. The 15th Central Committee preceded it. ...

, and a full member of the 17th Central Committee.

References

External links

Lin Shusen's profile at xinhuanet.com
1946 births Living people 20th-century mayors of places in China 21st-century mayors of places in China Mayors of Guangzhou People's Republic of China politicians from Guangdong Politicians from Shantou Chinese Communist Party politicians from Guangdong Political office-holders in Guangxi Governors of Guizhou South China University of Technology alumni {{china-politician-stub