Gong Yinbing

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 Chinese Communist Party 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]

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]