Lin Jun (politician)

Lin was born in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in July 1949, while his ancestral home in Anxi County, Fujian, China.^[1]

Lin Jun previously held the positions of Director-General and Deputy Secretary-General of the General Office of the State Planning Commission, General Manager and Party Secretary of the China Grain Reserves Corporation, and Chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese.

In July 2004, he was chosen vice chairman of the 7th All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC). In April 2007, he was designated as Party Secretary of ACFROC. In January 2008, he was elected chairman of the 7th ACFROC, and in July 2009, he was re-elected as chairman of the 8th ACFROC. On the morning of December 5, 2013, during the 9th National Committee of ACFROC convened in Beijing, Lin Jun was re-elected as chairman.^[2][3]

On June 9, 2017, Lin Jun resigned as chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and was thereafter appointed as an advisor to the federation.^[4]