12 Facts About Chen Shunyao

Chen Shunyao was a Chinese politician and academic administrator.

Chen Shunyao served as deputy party secretary of Tsinghua University, and was a delegate to the First and Third National People's Congresses.

Chen Shunyao was the wife of the high-ranking Chinese Communist Party leader Song Ping, a former member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee.

Chen Shunyao later went with Song to the CCP headquarters in Yan'an.

Chen Shunyao studied at the CCP Central Party School and worked as Zhou Enlai's secretary in 1939.

Chen Shunyao worked for the next eight years at the university, successively as deputy dean, assistant president, and deputy party secretary.

Chen Shunyao returned to Beijing in 1981, and worked in the Research Office of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party until her retirement in 1988.

Chen Shunyao was a delegate to the 1st National People's Congress in 1954 and participated in drafting the first Constitution of the People's Republic of China.

Chen Shunyao was a delegate to the 3rd National People's Congress and the 7th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Chen Shunyao's younger brother, Chen Shunyao Junwu, was a petroleum chemist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chen Shunyao died on 31 July 2019 in Beijing, at the age of 101 from lung cancer.

Chen Shunyao was buried at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing near her parents, 2 brothers and 4 sisters.