He Chunlin (Chinese: 何椿霖; pinyin: Hé Chūnlín; born August 1933) is a Chinese politician who served as secretary-general of the National People's Congress from 1998 to 2003, director of the National People's Congress Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee and director of the Credentials Committee of the National People's Congress from 2003 to 2008.

He Chunlin
何椿霖
Director of the Credentials Committee of the National People's Congress
In office
26 April 2003 – 24 April 2008
ChairpersonWu Bangguo
Preceded byWang Weicheng
Succeeded byHuang Zhendong
Director of the National People's Congress Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee
In office
March 2003 – March 2008
ChairpersonWu Bangguo
Preceded byHou Zongbin
Succeeded byHuang Zhendong
Secretary-General of the National People's Congress
In office
5 March 1998 – 5 March 2003
ChairpersonLi Peng
Preceded byCao Zhi
Succeeded bySheng Huaren
Personal details
BornAugust 1933 (age 91)
Wuxi County, Jiangsu, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materNortheast Agricultural University

He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 9th and 10th National People's Congress. He was a member of the 14th and 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography

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He was born in Wuxi County, Jiangsu, in August 1933. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 1951. He graduated from Northeast Agricultural University. Starting in 1957, he successively served as technician, engineer, deputy section chief, and section chief of the Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, interspersed with two years in May Seventh Cadre Schools in Yilan County, Heilongjiang and then Changde, Hunan from 1968 to 1970.

He was deputy director of Science and Technology Department of the Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute of the First Ministry of Machine Building in 1972, and held that office until 1978. After his short term as deputy head of the Research Group of the Office of the Leading Group for Agricultural Mechanization of the State Council, he was appointed director of the Comprehensive Department of the Research Office of the Ministry of Agricultural Machinery [zh] in 1979, and one year later became head of the General Office and director of Research Room. In 1982, he was despatched to the State Council, becoming head of Special Zone Working Group of the General Office in 1982 and director of the Office of Special Economic Zones in 1984. He also served as deputy secretary-general of the State Council from May 1988 to March 1998. In March 1998, he was chosen as secretary-general of the National People's Congress,[1] he remained in that position until March 2003, when he took office as director of the National People's Congress Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee.[2] He also served as director of the Credentials Committee of the National People's Congress from April 2003 to April 2008.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ Dong Huifeng (董会峰); Tao Dulan (陶社兰) (3 December 2002). 何椿霖:新一届港区全国人大代表选举公开公平公正. Sohu (in Chinese). Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  2. ^ Han Taihua (韩泰华), ed. (1999). 新中国50年 [50 Years of New China] (in Chinese). Beijing: Red Flag Publishing House. p. 897. ISBN 7-5051-0423-3.
  3. ^ The First Secretary Bureau of the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, ed. (2004). 第九届全国人民代表大会及其常务委员会会议大事记 1998–2003 [Chronicle of Events of the Meetings of the 9th National People's Congress and its Standing Committee 1998–2003] (in Chinese). Beijing: China Democracy and Legal System Press. p. 405. ISBN 7-80078-793-1.
  4. ^ Yue Qi (悦琪) (26 February 2008). 何椿霖作关于十一届全国人大代表资格的审查报告. ce.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 4 July 2022.
Assembly seats
Preceded by Secretary-General of the National People's Congress
1998–2003
Succeeded by
Preceded by Chairperson of the National People's Congress Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee
2003–2008
Succeeded by
Preceded by Director of the Credentials Committee of the National People's Congress
2003–2008