He Chunlin (Chinese: 何椿霖; pinyin: Hé Chūnlín; born August 1933) is a Chinese politician who served as secretary-general of the National People's Congress from 1998 to 2003, director of the National People's Congress Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee and director of the Credentials Committee of the National People's Congress from 2003 to 2008.
Starting in 1957, he successively served as technician, engineer, deputy section chief, and section chief of the Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, interspersed with two years in May Seventh Cadre Schools in Yilan County, Heilongjiang and then Changde, Hunan from 1968 to 1970.
He was deputy director of Science and Technology Department of the Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute of the First Ministry of Machine Building in 1972, and held that office until 1978.
After his short term as deputy head of the Research Group of the Office of the Leading Group for Agricultural Mechanization of the State Council, he was appointed director of the Comprehensive Department of the Research Office of the Ministry of Agricultural Machinery [zh] in 1979, and one year later became head of the General Office and director of Research Room.
In March 1998, he was chosen as secretary-general of the National People's Congress,[1] he remained in that position until March 2003, when he took office as director of the National People's Congress Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee.