Prior to that, he served as deputy director of the PLA General Political Department from 2012 to 2016.

Yin Fanglong was born in November 1953 in Yangzhong, Jiangsu Province.

[3] In February 2016, he was named Political Commissar of the newly established Central Theater Command.

[4] In March 2018, he was appointed deputy director of the National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee.

[5][6] Yin was an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (2012–2017).