Ding Sheng (general)

Ding Sheng
丁盛
6th Governor of Guangdong
In office
April 1972  April 1974
Preceded by Liu Xingyuan
Succeeded by Zhao Ziyang
Personal details
Born 7 November 1913
Yudu, Jiangxi, China
Died 25 September 1999
Guangzhou
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ding.

Ding Sheng (Chinese: 丁盛; 1913–1999) was a Chinese general and politician. He served as the Governor of China's Guangdong province from 1972 until 1974.

Ding Sheng joined the Communist Party of China in 1932. He was already an army officer with the Red Army. He participated in the Long March as well as the Second Sino-Japanese War.

He died in 1999 in Guangzhou.

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