Background
Chin was born about 1903 in Shantung, China.
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Ching Ming had held governmental posts, both in Shanghai and in the national government. He became a vice-mayor of Shanghai in February 1953 and since 1954 has represented Shanghai in the NPC, serving in the First and Second NPC’s (1954-1964), as well as in the Third NPC, which opened in December 1964. He has also been a vice-chairman of the Shanghai Committee of the CPPCC since 1955.
Education
Chin reportedly received no more than a middle school education.
Career
Nothing further was heard of Chin until the Communist conquest of Hunan in early August 1949. Late in that month the Hunan Military District was established, with Hsiao Ching-kuang as commander and Huang K’o-ch’eng as political commissar. Chin was one of the deputy political commissars under Huang. Aside from this military post, he held many other positions over the next three years in the Hunan government and Party organizations. In 1950 he became a member of the Hunan Provincial People's Government Council and chairman of its Land Reform Committee. In February 1952 he was promoted to vice-governor. In the Party he was a deputy secretary by October 1952, and when ranking secretary Huang K’o-ch’eng was transferred in late 1952, Chin replaced him. At about the same time he was made a member of the regional administration for this part of China, the Central-South Military and Administrative Committee, continuing in this post when it was redesignated the Central-South Administrative Committee in early 1953.
In January 1961, at the Party Central Committee’s Ninth Plenum, regional Party bureaus were re-created, apparently to regain some of, the political and economic control that had been lost because of the excesses of the Great Leap Forward. In the next year or two a number of key leaders from many fields were transferred from Peking to serve in these bureaus. Presumably because of his familiarity with financial matters, Chin was sent to Canton, where by October 1961 he was identified as a deputy secretary of the Central-South Bureau under T’ao Chu. (Two months later Chin was removed as a viceminister of Finance.) By the early spring of 1965 he had been promoted to a full secretaryship in the Central-South Bureau, still serving under First Secretary T’ao.
Chin served as a deputy from his native Shantung to the Second NPC (1959-1964). However, because of his transfer, he was elected to represent Kwangtung in the Third NPC, which opened in December 1964. When the China-Laos Friendship Association was established in March 1963, a “Chin Ming” was appointed a member of the Council, but this probably referred to the Chin Ming who is one of the secretaries in the Union of Chinese Dance Workers.
Politics
Few details are available about Chin’s activities in central-south China aside from a press report that he spoke in January 1952 to a group of students and teachers who had participated in “land reform” work in Hunan. Yet his work must have attracted some attention in Peking, for in September 1953 he was transferred to the capital to become a vice-minister of Finance, a post he held for over eight years, serving briefly under Teng Hsiao-p’ing, and then under Li Hsien-nien. A former Finance Ministry employee asserts that he and his colleagues regarded Chin as the most important vice-minister, a supposition supported in the annual editions of the Jen-min shou-ts’e (People’s handbook), which listed him first among the several vice-ministers. This same person claims that Chin specialized mainly in economic construction work and spent much of his time outside the Ministry coordinating with other government and CCP groups. He was regarded as adept in working with the Party apparatus in short, he was a good “organization man.”
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Political Party
Chinese Communist Party
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1949
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1950
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1952
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1959 - 1964