Xu Yongyue

Xu Yongyue (simplified Chinese: 许永跃; traditional Chinese: 許永躍; pinyin: Xǔ Yǒngyuè; born July 1942) is a Chinese Communist Party senior official, who served as Minister of State Security from March 1998 to August 2007. Prior to that, he was private secretary (or mishu) to Party Elder Chen Yun (the leading hard-liner in the CCP along with Li Xiannian) from 1983 to Chen's death in 1994.[1]

Biography

Xu was born in July 1942 in Zhenping County, Nanyang, Henan. He studied at the Beijing People's Public Security School (today the People's Public Security University of China) and became a police officer at the headquarters of the Ministry of Public Security. He was accepted as a full member of the Communist Party of China in 1972.

He then held positions at the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Although this might appear strange for someone with his training, he was actually posted in the General Office of each institution, and probably his task was to check the political loyalty of employees and make decisions on personnel.[1]

From 1983 to 1994, he served as private secretary (or mishu) to Party Elder Chen Yun, and then, from 1994 to 1998, he was Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of Hebei Province.

Xu was appointed Minister of State Security in March 1998, and remained in that post until August 2007. During his leadership of the MSS, he improved and expanded the already close collaboration with the Russian security and intelligence services begun by his predecessor, Jia Chunwang. While in the 1980s the MSS had worked together with the Americans against the Soviet Union (notably in Afghanistan), after the end of the Cold War China and Russia drew closer. The security ties between the two countries eventually led to the establishment, in 2001, of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Especially after Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, the partnership in the intelligence and security fields became strategic.

Xu Yongyue was an alternate member of the 15th CPC Central Committee and a full member of the 16th CPC Central Committee.

References
  1. Mattis, Peter; Brazil, Matthew (2020-12-12). Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-68247-304-7. OCLC 1117319580.
Preceded by
Jia Chunwang		 Minister of State Security
1998–2007		 Succeeded by
Geng Huichang


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