Liang Lingguang | |||||||||
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梁灵光 | |||||||||
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| Governor of Guangdong | |||||||||
| In office April 1983 – August 1985 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | Liu Tianfu | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Ye Xuanping | ||||||||
| Mayor of Guangzhou | |||||||||
| In office September 1980 – July 1983 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | Yang Shangkun | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Ye Xuanping | ||||||||
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| Born | November 1916 Yongchun County, Fujian, China | ||||||||
| Died | 25 February 2006 (aged 89) Guangzhou, Guangdong, China | ||||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 梁靈光 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 梁灵光 | ||||||||
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Liang Lingguang (Chinese: 梁灵光; Wade–Giles: Liang Ling-kuang; November 1916 – 25 February 2006) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. An anti-Japanese activist in the 1930s, he led a guerrilla force under the New Fourth Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and rose to Chief of Staff of the 29th Corps of the People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Liang served as the first Mayor of Xiamen, Vice Governor of Fujian, and later Minister of Light Industry (1977–1980). During the reform and opening era, he was transferred to Guangdong province, where he served as Mayor of Guangzhou (1980–1983), Governor of Guangdong (1983–1985), and President of Jinan University (1983–1985). He was one of the pioneering reformist leaders who propelled Guangdong's economic rise in the 1980s.