Gong Yinbing
龚饮冰
Vice Minister of Light Industry
In office
1949–1957
MinisterHuang Yanpei
Jia Tuofu
Personal details
Born1896
Changsha County, Hunan, China
Died1976 (aged 79–80)
Beijing, China
Political partyKuomintang
Communist Party of China
RelationsGong Ke
ChildrenGong Yuzhi
Alma materHunan University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese龚饮冰
Traditional Chinese龔飲冰
Gong Zaiseng
Simplified Chinese龚再僧
Traditional Chinese龔再僧
Gong Zehong
Simplified Chinese龚泽鸿
Traditional Chinese龔澤鴻
Zhang Ruochen
Simplified Chinese张若臣
Traditional Chinese張若臣

Gong Yinbing (Chinese: 龚饮冰; 1896 – 26 June 1976) was a Chinese banker and politician. He was a representative of the 6th and 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.[1] He was a delegate to the 1st National People's Congress and the 2nd and 3rd Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.[1] He a member of the 2nd National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference the 3rd Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[1]

Biography

Gong was born into a landlord family in Changsha County, Hunan, in 1896. He graduated from Hunan University.[2][3] After the 1911 Revolution, he joined the Kuomintang and took part in the struggle against Yuan Shikai and the Constitutional Protection Movement.[2][3]

Influenced by communism during the May Fourth Movement, he joined the Communist Party of China in 1923.[2][3] He mainly engaged in propaganda, intelligence and financial work secretly in Changsha, Wuhan, Shanghai, Jinan, Chongqing, and British Hong Kong.[2][3] After Shanghai was controlled by the People's Liberation Army in May 1949, he was appointed as a member of the Financial Takeover Committee of the Shanghai Military Control Commission and general manager of the Bank of China.[2][3]

After the establishment of the Communist State in 1949, he successively served as vice minister of light industry and deputy head of United Front Work Department.[2][3] During the Cultural Revolution, he was brought to be persecuted and suffered political persecution.[3]

On 26 June 1976, he died from an illness in Beijing, aged 80.[3]

Family

His son Gong Yuzhi was a Chinese Communist Party theorist and politician.[2] His grandson Gong Ke is an electronic engineer and administrator who served as president of Tianjin University from 2006 to 2011 and president of Nankai University from 2011 to 2018.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 红色银行. sina. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Xing Ruihua (邢瑞华) (16 June 2021). 龚饮冰：袈裟拂霜刃 万金照清贫. sxdygbjy.gov.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Wu Jiaqi (吴家齐) (9 April 2021). 龚饮冰：无名英雄披袈裟 隐蔽战线银行家. Changsha Evening News (in Chinese). Retrieved 12 September 2021.
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