Who's Who in Hometown (112) – Zhou Ying

Zhou Ying, female, Han ethnicity, born in 1909, from Nangong, Hebei. He graduated from The First Women's Normal School of Hebei Province in Tianjin and the Kuomintang Party Affairs School in Nanjing, and went to Japan in 1929 to study at Waseda University. In her early years, she participated in the May Fourth Movement with her sister. After the "918" incident, he and He Dinghua and others organized the "New Culture Research Society" in Japan and published the anti-Japanese journal "Cultural Struggle". In 1933, he was arrested by the Japanese police for participating in the left-wing cultural movement and the anti-Japanese movement for international students, and deported. After returning to Shanghai, he participated in the "Group of Expelled Returnees of Students Studying in Japan", and successively participated in the "Anti-Imperialist Grand Alliance", "Bee Society", "Drama Federation" and other anti-Japanese national salvation organizations, and at the same time advocated the "China Art Supply Society" as a manager. In 1937, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, he went to Jingshan County, Hubei Province, as a primary school teacher. In 1945, he joined the China Democratic League and the Revolutionary Comrades' Federation. In March 1946, he became the director of the Chongqing Workers' Welfare Society of the China Labor Association, and was arrested by the Kuomintang in August 1946. Held for 40 days. At the end of 1946, she went to Hong Kong and served as the chairman of the Kowloon Women's Association in Hong Kong. In the spring of 1947, he participated in the preparations of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. In 1948, he went to the Liberated Areas and served as a member of the Preparatory Committee for the National Women's Congress, and in the same year he was elected as an executive member of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. After the liberation of Peiping, he participated in the preparatory work for the new CPPCC and attended the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as the director of the Labor wage division of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, the executive committee and alternate standing committee member of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the member of the first, second and fifth national committees, the standing committee member of the sixth and seventh national committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the third and fourth members of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and was elected as the first executive member of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, the second alternate central committee member, the third central committee member, the fifth and sixth central standing committee members, and the deputy director of the organization department of the central committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee. He died in Beijing on January 26, 1991, at the age of 84.