| image = File:Lin_Biao.jpg
| caption = Portrait of Lin Biao
| nationality = [[China|Chinese]]
|political_party=[[Communist Party of China]]| birth_name = Lin Yurong
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|12|5}}| birth_place = Huanggang, Hubei, [[Qing Dynasty]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|9|13|1907|12|5}}| death_place = Öndörkhaan, [[Mongolian People's Republic]]
| political_line = [[Mao Zedong Thought]] (dogmatic)</br>[[Ultra-leftism]]}}
'''Lin Biao''' (Chinese: ''林彪'') was the [[First Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China]] between 1966 and 1971 and [[Marshal of People's Liberation Army]]. He was known for his military role in the [[Chinese Civil War]] and the [[Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution]]. He died in 1971 in a plane crash on the territories of the [[Mongolian People's Republic (1924–1992)|Mongolian People's Republic]] after he tried to overthrow the [[Chairman of the Communist Party of China]], [[Mao Zedong]], through a failed military coup attempt named [[Project 571]].
Born in 1906, Lin Biao joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League in 1923, enrolled in the fourth term of the [[Whampoa Military Academy]] in 1925, and joined the [[Communist Party of China]] in the same year.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=Xinhua|title=1971年林彪外逃坠机身亡|date=2009-06-22|url=http://cn.chinagate.cn/indepths/jianguo60/2009-06/22/content_17994051.htm}}</ref>Chinese Civil War (1927-1937)
In 1927, he became a platoon commander and company commander of the 73rd Regiment of the 25th Division of the [[National Revolutionary Army]], and participated in the [[Nanchang Uprising]] and the [[Xiangnan Uprising]]. In October 1934, he joined the [[Long March]]. After arriving in [[Shanbei]], he became the president and political commissar of the [[Chinese Red Army Anti-Japanese University]].<ref name=":0" />
Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945)
During the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the commander of the First 15 Division of the [[Eighth Route Army]] and commanded the [[Battle of Pingxingguan]].<ref name=":0" />
Liberation War (1946-1949)
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was sent to [[Shandong]] to be the commander of [[Shandong Military Region]] and a member of the Shandong Branch of the Communist Party of China, and in late September 1945, when he was traveling to [[Puyang]], [[Henan]] Province, he received a telegram from the Central Committee and was ordered to travel to the Northeast, arriving in [[Shenyang]] at the end of October. During the Liberation War, he served as Commander-in-Chief of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, Commander of the Northeast Field Army, Commander of the Fourth Field Army, and Secretary of the [[Northeast Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China]].<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|newspaper=Baidu Baike|title=Lin Biao|url=https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%9E%97%E5%BD%AA?fromModule=lemma_search-box}}</ref>People's Republic of China
After the founding of [[People's Republic of China]], he became the chairman of the [[Central-South Military Commission]] (later changed to the Central-South Administrative Committee), the commander of the Central-South Military Region and the [[Fourth Field Army]], and the first secretary of the Central-South Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee. after attending the [[Third Plenary Session of the Seventh CPC Central Committee]] in June 1950, he moved his family to [[Beijing]].<ref name=":1" />
In November 1951, he became [[Vice Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission]] of the [[Central People's Government]], and from 1954 he became [[Vice Premier of the State Council]] and [[Vice Chairman of the National Defense Commission]]. In April 1955, at the Fifth Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he was elected as a member of the [[Political Bureau of the Central Committee]], and in September he was awarded the [[Order of 81st Class]], the [[Order of Independence and Freedom]], and the [[Order of Liberation]].<ref name=":1" />
He became the [[Minister of National Defense of People's Republic of China|Minister of National Defense]] in 1959. He proposed and implemented a set of [[Ultra-leftism|"left"]] things, cracked down, persecuted and ostracized some comrades who disagreed with him; at the same time, he engaged in personal worship of Mao Zedong, simplifying and vulgarizing [[Mao Zedong Thought|Mao Zedong's thought]]. 1964, he seized certain shortcomings in the army's big training and big competition and made a big fuss, saying that to engage in military first and technology first was to implement the "[[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] military line". "Politics can impact everything" argument further poisoned the whole army, the normal relationship between political and military unity, political and operational unity in the troops became impacted, overwhelmed relationship, resulting in serious interference and damage to the work of the entire army.<ref name=":1" />
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
After the start of the "[[Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution|Cultural Revolution]]", under the banner of "holding high" and "following closely", he formed a [[Counterrevolution|counter-revolutionary]] group with [[Chen Boda]], [[Huang Yongsheng]], [[Wu Fa Xian]], [[Ye Qun]], [[Li Zuopeng]] and [[Qiu Huizuo]]. In April 1969, at the [[First Plenary Session of the Ninth CPC Central Committee]], he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the [[Central Political Bureau]], [[Vice Chairman of the CPC Central Committee]] and [[Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission]], and was named as the successor of Mao Zedong and written into the party constitution.<ref name=":1" />
In October 1970, under the command of Lin Biao, his son [[Lin Liguo]] gathered a group of gangsters to form the so-called "United Fleet" and formulated an armed coup plan - the "Project 571" document, actively preparing for an armed coup. At 00:00 on the 13th, Lin Biao, Ye Qun and Lin Liguo disregarded the obstruction of the guard troops and did not wait for the co-pilot, navigator and attendant to board the plane, they forced the take-off and fled in fear and he died in 1971 in a plane crash on the territories of the Mongolian People's Republic. On August 20, 1973, the CPC Central Committee decided to expel him from the Party and on January 25, 1981, he was recognized by the [[Special Court of the Supreme People's Court]] of the People's Republic of China as the main culprit in the counter-revolutionary group case. <ref name=":0" />
[[Category:Counterrevolutionaries]]
[[Category:Marshals of China]]
[[Category:Members of the Communist Party of China]]
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[[Category:Vice premiers of China]]
