He Meiying, born in 1937, commenced his studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University in 1956. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1958, graduated in 1963, and remained at the university. He held positions as the head of the Study and Labor Department of the Youth League Committee and deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee. In 1978, he became the deputy secretary of the party committee of the Department of Automation, later serving as secretary of the party committee and a member of the Standing Committee of the university's party committee. In July 1986, he was appointed deputy secretary of the university's party committee, followed by his role as vice president in 1988. In September 1995, he assumed the role of Secretary of the CCP Committee at Tsinghua University.[2][3]
In 1997, he was elected as a delegate to the 15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and appointed as a member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. In 2002, he resigned from his position as Party Secretary of Tsinghua University.[4]