Sai Leun

Sai Leun (; ; also known as Sai Lin; born Lin Mingxian; 26 December 1948 – 7 August 2024), commonly known as U Sai Leun, was the chairman of the National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) and the leader of the Eastern Shan State Special Region 4.

Biography Sai Leun's official biography states he was born in Pang Hseng, Shan State, Burma on 26 December 1948. His father was a Chinese from Hainan; his mother was of a native Tai. Other sources reported that he was born on the Chinese island of Hainan. During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, he moved through Yunnan into Burma and then joined to help strengthen the Communist Party of Burma (CPB).

Sai Leun made a few abortive attempts to develop traditional business interests in the city. He invested some $US4 million in a sugar mill outside Mong La, only to find that no market existed for the sugar. A similar attempt to cultivate new varieties of rice also faltered when he failed to attract Chinese buyers. Sai Leun's construction business, Asia Wealth Company, has built a new sealed road that links Sop Lwe to the outside world.

Sai Leun was married to Nang Yin , the eldest daughter of Pheung Kya-shin, the chairman of the Shan State Special Region 1 in Myanmar and leader of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA).

On 7 August 2024, Sai Leun died in China after battling lung cancer. He was 75.