# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/xu-yongyue
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:38:03.931Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/xu-yongyue"
name: "Xu Yongyue"
slug: "xu-yongyue"
description: "Xu Yongyue is a retired Chinese intelligence officer who served as the second Minister of State Security (MSS) from March 1998 to August 2007. A princeling born to Communist Party (CCP) elite, Xu rose to prominence after serving over a decade as private secretary (mishu) to Chen Yun, the most senior of the Eight Elders and the leading hard-liner of late 20th century China. After nine years as Minister of State Security, Xu's career ended unceremoniously in 2007 amid a number of scandals, most prominently a sex scandal which ensnared several senior party officials. The tightening of Sino-Russian intelligence cooperation is regarded as his most notable contribution. He has been accused of corruption, and involvement in human rights abuses including directing the persecution of religious minorities, extrajudicial killings, and executions of prisoners of conscience by organ harvesting."
tagline: "Retired Chinese politician and intelligence officer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Xu_Yongyue.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.57
  momentum:             1.304347826086957
  historical:           6.357165333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AE%B8%E6%B0%B8%E8%B7%83"
    title: "许永跃"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Yongyue"
    title: "Xu Yongyue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Yongyue"
    title: "Xu Yongyue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Yongyue"
    title: "Xu Yongyue"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8E%D0%B9_%D0%AE%D0%BD%D1%8A%D1%8E%D1%8D"
    title: "Сюй Юнъюэ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88_%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "شو یونگیو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BB%A9a_V%C4%A9nh_D%C6%B0%E1%BB%A3c"
    title: "Hứa Vĩnh Dược"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1015466"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump