Because Taiwan Province Province stipulates that adult men must perform military service (before the age of 22), but if they go to college, they can skip it temporarily, but they must make up after graduation. A typical example is the Four Tigers in Taiwan Province Province, which were dissolved because their members had to perform military service. Lin yifu graduated from the graduate school on 1978. At this time, he was 27 years old. He was sent to serve in Kinmen Island. A year later, he may have made careful preparations and sneaked into Xiamen alone. At this time, Lin Yifu was listed as captain and company commander. Most likely, I don't want to be a soldier. If I had stayed in Taiwan Province Province, I might not have achieved what I am now.

Supplement Lin Yifu's memoirs: Lin Yifu also mentioned his views on the cultivation of the Kuomintang: "Although I was touted in Taiwan Province, the Kuomintang only used me and did not really cultivate me; Now here is to really value me and cultivate me. At present, except for the occasional monotony and loneliness, my life is very satisfactory. "

Many years later, Lin Yifu recalled this experience and said, "I reviewed the history of China after the Opium War and have been thinking about how to make China rich and strong as soon as possible. In the late 1970s, after Nixon's visit to China and the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan and the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, I felt more and more that the hope of China's prosperity was on the mainland side. As a China person, if you want to contribute to the motherland, you must go to the mainland. " [

Lin Yifu's resume

Lin Yifu, a defected military officer and a famous economist, is actually a wanted criminal of the Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan Province Province. Lin Yifu also served as a member of the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th CPPCC National Committee of People's Republic of China (PRC), deputy director of the Economic Committee of China People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and was elected as an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 2005. Chief economist and senior vice president in charge of economic development of the World Bank.

Name: Lin Yifu

Original name: Lin Zhengyi

Also known as Lin Zhengyi

English: Justin Lin Yifu

Gender: male

Birth:1952101October 15.

Native place: Yilan County, Taiwan

Nationality: People's Republic of China (PRC).

Father: forest fire tree

Family: My wife Chen Yunying and I have two children and now live in Beijing.

Resume:

1978, Master, School of Enterprise Management, Taiwan Province National Chengchi University.

1979 when he was stationed in Jinmen, Fujian, he swam ashore in Xiamen.

1982 obtained the master's degree in political economy of Peking University.

1986 received a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago.

1993 was promoted to professor of Peking University.

1994 * * * co-founded and served as the director of China Economic Research Center of Peking University.

In 2008, he became the chief economist and senior vice president in charge of development economics of the World Bank.