Lin Biao

Lin Biao

Lin Biao (Chinese: 林彪; 5 December 1907 – 13 September 1971) was a Chinese politician and Marshal of the People's Republic of China who was pivotal in the Communist victory during the Chinese Civil War, especially in Northeast China from 1946 to 1949. Lin was the general who commanded the decisive Liaoshen and Pingjin campaigns, in which he co-led the Manchurian Field Army to victory and led the People's Liberation Army into Beijing. He crossed the Yangtze River in 1949, decisively defeated the Kuomintang and took control of the coastal provinces in Southeast China. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lin Biao has received more than 1,590,788 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Lin Biao is the 1,511th most popular politician (up from 1,556th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from China (up from 112th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Chinese Politician.

Lin Biao was a major military leader of the People's Republic of China, who was also the Vice-Chairman of the Communist Party of China. He is best known for his role as the commander of the People's Liberation Army during the Cultural Revolution and for his death in 1971 when he allegedly attempted to escape to the Soviet Union.