Lin Zuoming
Chinese engineer and politician, chairman of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (2012–2018)
Lin Zuoming (Chinese: 林左鸣; born May 1957) is a Chinese business chief executive and politician who served as chairman of the Board of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China from 2012 to 2018. He previously served as general manager of the corporation and chairman of the Board of the AVIC I Commercial Aircraft and vice chairman of the Board of the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China and before that, general manager and chairman of the Board of China Aviation Industry Corporation I. He is the current chairman of the Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
He was a delegate to the 9th National People's Congress. He a representative of the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was an alternate of the 16th and 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
Biography
Lin was born in Zhao'an County, Fujian, in May 1957. He secondary studied at Zhangzhou No. 1 High School. After the Cultural Revolution in June 1976, he became a sent-down youth in Longhai County (now Longhai District of Zhangzhou). After resuming the college entrance examination, in 1978, he entered Nanjing Aeronautical Institute (now Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), where he majored in aero-engine design.
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