Lin Wenyi

Lin Wenyi (; born September 1944) is a Chinese engineer and politician.

Career and education Lin was the Chairman of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League between 2005 and 2017, a legally sanctioned minor political party in China, a Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Lin's father was from Tainan, Taiwan; she was born in Qingdao.

A graduate of Tsinghua University, Lin worked in Xinjiang as a technician in her early years. After her stint in Xinjiang ended in 1973, she began working for the Chinese Academy of Sciences as a physicist. She has an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Laws honoris causa) from the University of Liverpool. Beginning in 1994 she was a full-time professor at Tsinghua University.