Ma Xingyuan

Ma Xingyuan (November 1917 – November 8, 2005, ) was born in 1917 in Xiyang County, Shanxi Province. He served as Secretary of the Secretariat of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Governor of Fujian Province, and Director of the Fujian Provincial Advisory Committee of the CCP.

Biography In May 1937, Ma Xingyuan joined the , and in January 1939, he became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), actively participating in the Second Sino-Japanese War. During the Chinese Civil War, he held numerous leadership positions, including Secretary of the District Committee in the Second District of Xiyang County, Head and Deputy Secretary of the Organization Department of the Xiyang County CCP Committee, Secretary of the Pingding County Party Committee and concurrently Political Commissar of the 30th Regiment of the People's Liberation Army, Secretary of the Xiyang County Committee, Secretary of the Lin County Party Committee in Henan, and Head of the Organization Department of the Sixth Detachment of the Yangtze River Detachment.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as Director of the Organization Department, Deputy Secretary, and then Secretary of the CCP Longxi Prefectural Committee in Fujian, while also acting as Political Commissar of the Longxi Military Sub-district. He later held posts as Deputy Head of the Rural Work Department of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, Director of the Provincial Office of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water, Member of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and Head of the Party Leadership Group of the Provincial Agriculture Bureau. He also served as deputy director of the Fujian Revolutionary Committee.

During the Cultural Revolution, he suffered political persecution. In 1977, he was elected a member of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He subsequently served as Secretary of the Secretariat of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Governor of Fujian Province, and Director of the Advisory Committee of the Provincial Party Committee. In 1982, he was re-elected as a member of the Central Committee at the 12th Party Congress, and in 1987, he was elected to the CCP Central Advisory Commission at the 13th Party Congress.

Ma Xingyuan was a member of the 11th and 12th Central Committees, an invited delegate to the 15th and 16th Party Congresses, an observer at the 14th Congress, and a deputy to the 5th National People’s Congress. He died in Beijing on November 8, 2005, at the age of 88.