Lin Yixin (politician)

He studied at the Tenth Provincial Junior High School of Fujian. In the spring of 1929, he joined the Anti-Imperialist Alliance, a peripheral organization led by the Chinese Communist Party, and participated in underground activities against imperialism, feudalism, and warlordism. In the summer of 1930, he traveled to Xiamen, the seat of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, but failed to reach the revolutionary base in western Fujian due to disrupted communication lines. He later moved to Shanghai, worked with the Red Relief Association, and helped rescue arrested comrades. In October 1930, he was transferred to the Party's underground printing press and officially joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1931.^[3]

After being cut off from the Party in 1935 due to sabotage, Lin continued to search for contact while working among the masses through the vocational school led by Tao Xingzhi. In late 1936, he reconnected with the Party and successively served as head of the Anti-Imperialist Alliance in Dazhang District, and later as Director and Secretary of the Organization Department of the Shanghai East District Party Committee. After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was dispatched to Lishui and other parts of Zhejiang to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda and organization work. From December 1938 to October 1939, he served as Secretary of the Special Committee for Jinqu in Zhejiang, overseeing Party affairs in several counties. In July 1939, he was elected delegate to the 7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and became an alternate member of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee.^[4]

At the end of 1939, he traveled to Yan'an and in 1941, he entered the Central Party School of the CCP. He later became Director of the Secretariat and attended the Seventh Party Congress in 1945. After the war, he was sent to the Northeast and held multiple posts, including Director of the Political Department of the Beian Military District, member of the Heilongjiang Provincial Working Committee, and Political Commissar of the Heihe Military Subdistrict. In 1949, Lin returned south to work in Fujian, serving as Secretary of the Xiamen Municipal Party Committee, Deputy Minister and then Minister of the Provincial Organization Department, and Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission.^[5]

In 1955, he was appointed Procurator-General of the Fujian Provincial People's Procuratorate [zh].^[6] From 1956 to 1965, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial CCP Committee and Secretary of the Secretariat. He also served as vice chairman of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference and Secretary of the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission.^[7] In 1965, Lin was appointed vice director and party group deputy secretary of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. During the Cultural Revolution, he was persecuted but returned to work in 1975 as Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Secretariat and the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission. From 1979 to 1984, he served as Vice Director and Party Group Deputy Secretary of the State Council's Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.^[8]

Lin Yixin was a delegate to the First, Second, and Third National People's Congresses, a Standing Committee member of the Fifth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a delegate to the Seventh and Twelfth Party Congresses.^[9] He was also a member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, an executive director of the China Overseas Exchange Association, and an advisor to the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. Lin died in Beijing on March 6, 2010, at the age of 98.^[10]