About Lin Wenyi
Born 1944. Lin Wenyi is a Chinese politician, engineer, university teacher and tsinghua University.
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.
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Chinese engineer and politician
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Lin Wenyi was born in 1944 in Qingdao.
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