Niu Ping

Niu Ping (Chinese: 牛平)
Vice Minister of State Security
In office 1995–2004
Personal details
Born	November 1944 (1944-11) Lishi, Shanxi, China
Died	18 February 2023(2023-02-18) (aged 78) Sanya, Hainan, China

Niu Ping (Chinese: 牛平; November 1944 – 18 February 2023) was a Chinese security and law enforcement official who served as Vice Minister of State Security and a member of the ministry’s Party Committee. Over the course of his career, he held a series of senior public security and political-legal positions in Sichuan Province before assuming national office.

Biography

Niu Ping was born in November 1944 in Lishi, Shanxi Province. He began working in September 1968 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in October 1973. From 1968 to 1972, he served as a cadre in the Wushan County Public Security Bureau in Sichuan Province. Beginning in 1972, he held several positions within local public security and procuratorial organs, including pretrial officer, deputy section chief, and deputy director of the Guan County Public Security Bureau. He subsequently served as Deputy Procurator-General of the People’s Procuratorate of Banbar County in the Tibet Autonomous Region before returning to Guan County, where he became a Standing Committee member of the county Party committee, Director of the Public Security Bureau, Deputy Party Secretary, and later County Magistrate.

From 1984 to 1993, Niu held a series of leadership roles in the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department, first as Deputy Director and Party Committee member, later as Deputy Director and Deputy Party Secretary, and eventually as Director and Party Secretary while concurrently serving as the First Political Commissar of the Sichuan Armed Police Corps. In 1993, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and continued as Director of the Provincial Public Security Department and First Political Commissar of the Armed Police Corps.

In 1995, Niu was appointed Vice Minister of State Security and a member of the ministry’s Party Committee, a position he held until 2004. He retired from public service in October 2013. He also served as a member of the Ninth and Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Niu Ping died on 18 February 2023 in Sanya, Hainan Province.