Shengzhong Lin

Lin Shengzhong (林盛中; January 1942 – 9 December 2011) was a Chinese politician who served as the chair of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League (TDSL), one of China's eight minor and non-oppositional political parties led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), from 1987 to 1988.

Biography

Lin was born in January 1942, in Taipei, and graduated from National Taiwan University in 1964 with a degree in geology. He then received a doctorate in the same subject from Brown University in 1971.

In China, Lin held multiple geology research positions, but his work in the field was initially disrupted due to the Cultural Revolution. He joined the TDSL in 1978, and in 1981 he became the first president of the Taiwan Scholar Association.

Lin was a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from 1978 until his death in 2011.

Personal life and death

Lin married in 1976 and had at least one child.

Lin died on 9 December 2011, in Beijing, aged 70, after an unspecified illness.