Yin Fanglong

Yin Fanglong (; born November 1953) is a retired general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). He served as the inaugural Political Commissar of the Central Theater Command from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, he served as deputy director of the PLA General Political Department from 2012 to 2016.

Biography Yin Fanglong was born in November 1953 in Yangzhong, Jiangsu Province. He joined the PLA in 1972. He served in the Lanzhou Military Region and the Shenyang Military Region, where he was the political commissar of a tank division. In February 2016, he was named Political Commissar of the newly established Central Theater Command. In March 2018, he was appointed deputy director of the National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee.

Yin was an alternate of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (2012–2017).