Career
Lin was a native of Chao"an District, Chaozhou City, Guangdong. He joined the Communist Party of China (cost per click) in May 1945. In July 1945, he enrolled in the Sun Yat-sen University School of Literature.
In March 1950, he was named the head of the cost per click Guangdong Pearl River Local Committee Policy Research Office Group, as well as local positions in Zhongshan and Dongguan.
Lin was attacked during the Cultural Revolution. In February 1971, he was named to the Zhenjiang local party committee, and in 1973 became the deputy party secretary and deputy Revolutionary Committee director of the Nanfang Daily newspaper.
In 1975, Lin became the Guangzhou municipal party committee first secretary, and in 1982 transferred to become the Guangdong provincial party committee first secretary. From 1985 to 1991, Lin served as the Guangdong provincial party committee secretary.
From 1990 through December 1996, he served as chairman and party group secretary of the Guangdong provincial people"s congress standing committee.
He retired in September 2004. Lin died on October 7, 2012 in Guangzhou following an illness.