He Chunlin, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He was born in 1933, joined the CPC in 1951 and graduated from Northeast China Agricultural College.
He began his career serving in various positions within the Chinese Academy Agricultural Mechanizaton Sciences. He later held different leadership and management positions within the State Council and Ministry of Agricultural Machinery. In 1982, he left the Ministry of Agricultural Machinery to head the Work Group for Special Economic Zones of the State Council. In 1988, he became deputy secretary general of the State Council.