Preceded by None Full Name Wu Peilin Role Politician | Succeeded by Jia Chunwang Name Ling Yun Party Communist Party of China | |
Born 29 June 1917 (age 106)
Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China ( 1917-06-29 ) Political party Communist Party of China | ||
Ling Yun (simplified Chinese: 凌云; traditional Chinese: 凌雲; pinyin: Ling Yun; (born June 29, 1917), born as Wu Peilin (吴沛霖), is a former politician of the People's Republic of China, the first PRC Minister of State Security.
Biography
Ling Yun was born in Jiaxing county, 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 eventually advanced to the post of vice-minister. Ling Yun was Minister of State Security from June 1983 to September 1985.