Peng Peiyun

Peng Peiyun ( Chinese  彭佩云 ; * 1929 in Liuyang , Hunan ) is a Chinese politician of the Communist Party of China (CCP) who was a member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1998 . She was vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1998 to 2003 and chairwoman of the All-Chinese Women's Association (ACFV), and from 1999 to 2009 she was president of the Red Cross Society of China .

Life

Peng Peiyun, who belongs to the Han ethnic group , began studying at the United Southwest University in 1944 and became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth Association of China (KJVC) in 1945 . She also became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1946 and continued her studies at Tsinghua University's Sociology Faculty from 1947 to 1949 . Subsequently, she was briefly secretary of the party committee of Tsinghua University from 1949 to 1950 and then from 1950 to 1953 employee of the school section of the organizing committee of the Beijing Party Committee . She then became a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Party Committee on Higher Education, and from 1964 to 1966 deputy secretary of the Beijing University Party Committee . She and Lu Ping lost this position at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 through the influence of Nie Yuanzi and Cao Yi'ou , who were close to Mao Zedong's wife and driving force of the Cultural Revolution, Jiang Qing .

Peng Peiyun was it only after the end of the Cultural Revolution and the overthrow of the Cultural Revolution Group and the so-called " Gang of Four rehabilitated" in 1976 and served then from 1977 to 1978, first as deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chemical Engineering Research Institute Beijing. From 1978 to 1979 she was head of the 1st section of the State Commission for Science and Technology and between 1982 and 1988 both Vice Minister for Education and Vice Minister in the State Education Commission as well as Secretary of the Party Commission of the University of Science and Technology. She was also a member of the Central Committee for Disciplinary Control of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP) between 1982 and 1992 and attended the XII. Party Congress 1982 and XIII. 1987 Party Congress. In January 1988, she became ministerial chairman of the State Commission on Population and Family Planning and held this position for ten years until 1998. As such, she was also a member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1998 . At the XIV. Party Congress in 1992 she finally became a member of the CCP Central Committee and belonged to this party body after her re-election at the XV. Party Congress 1997 to the XVI. Party congress 2002.

Peng Peiyun has been president of the China Popular Culture Association since 1993, and was president of the Demographic Society of China from 1994 to 2008, and director of the National Committee for the Patriotic Public Health Campaign from 1994 to 1998. She was also temporarily Honorary Vice-President of the Chinese Association for People with Disabilities, Director of the State Council's Coordinating Council for the Work of People with Disabilities, and Director of the Working Committee for Women and Children, which is also under the State Council. She served as Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress between 1998 and 2003 . As the successor to Chen Muhua , she became chairwoman of the All-Chinese Women's Association (ACFV) in 1998 and held this position until 2003. She also replaced Qian Zhengying as President of the Red Cross Society of China in 1999 and held this position until she was replaced by Hua Jianmin in 2009. She has been Honorary President of the All-China Women's Association since 2009.

Web links

• Lily Xiao Hong Lee: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women , p. 422, 1988, ISBN 0-7656-0-7980
• Entry in China Vitae

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Peng is the family name here, Peiyun is the first name.