Ding Sheng (general)

{{Short description|Chinese politician (1913–1999)}}

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| name = Ding Sheng

| native_name = 丁盛

| native_name_lang = zh

| image = Ding Sheng.jpg

| order = 6th

| office = Governor of Guangdong

| term_start = April 1972

| term_end = April 1974

| predecessor = Liu Xingyuan

| successor = Zhao Ziyang

| birth_date = 7 November 1913

| birth_place = Yudu, Jiangxi, China

| death_date = 25 September 1999 (aged 85)

| death_place = Guangzhou

| party = Chinese Communist Party

}}

Ding Sheng ({{zh |c = 丁盛 }}; 1913–1999) was a Chinese general and politician. He served as the Governor of China's Guangdong province from 1972 until 1974.{{Cite book |last1=Yeung |first1=Yue-man |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KQl2QMzAZ0C |title=Guangdong: Survey of a Province Undergoing Rapid Change |last2=Chu |first2=David K. Y. |date=1998 |publisher=The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press |isbn=978-962-201-769-6 |pages=25 |language=en}}

Ding Sheng joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1932.{{Cite book |last1=Ding |first1=Sheng |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752264776 |title=Luo nan ying xiong : Ding Sheng jiang jun hui yi lu |last2=丁盛 |date=2011 |publisher=新世紀出版及傳媒有限公司 |others=Guang Jin, Ruxin Yu, 金光, 余汝信 |isbn=978-988-19430-7-1 |location=Xianggang |pages=288–307 |oclc=752264776}} He was already an army officer with the Red Army. He participated in the Long March as well as the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War and Sino-Indian War.

He died in 1999 in Guangzhou.