Luo Shuzhang

BornDecember 21, 1899

DiedJanuary 30, 1992 (aged 92)

PartyChinese Communist Party (1935-1965)

Luo Shuzhang
羅叔章
Luo Shuzhang, photographed c. 1949
Personal details
Born	(1899-12-21)December 21, 1899 Yueyang, Hunan, Qing Empire
Died	January 30, 1992(1992-01-30) (aged 92) Beijing, People's Republic of China
Party	Chinese Communist Party (1935-1965)

Luo Shuzhang

Traditional Chinese

羅叔章

Simplified Chinese

罗叔章

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Luó Shūzhāng
IPA	[lwǒ ʂúʈʂáŋ]

Luo Shuzhang (Chinese: 羅叔章; pinyin: Luó Shūzhāng; December 21, 1899 – January 30, 1992) was a Chinese politician. Prior to joining the Chinese Communist Party in 1935, Luo was a teacher. A women's rights activist, she served as Vice Minister at several ministries from 1954 till her retirement in 1965. Luo died in Beijing aged 92.

Luo Shuzhang was born on December 21, 1899, in Yueyang, Hunan, China.^[1] Her father was a doctor who practised traditional Chinese medicine; he also ran a private school which he forbade his daughter from attending.^[2] Nonetheless, a young Luo Shuzhang read widely, thanks to her mother who gave her access to classic texts as Hundred Family Surnames and the Three Character Classic.^[2] At age 15, Luo was admitted to the newly established Yueyang Girls' School and was among the many local students who protested against Yuan Shikai's plan to restore the monarchy. Luo was enrolled into Changsha First Normal School a year after being accepted to Yueyang Girls'; she graduated from Changsha in 1919 and became a teacher, first at Chu County, Anhui for three years, and then in the Dutch East Indies for six years.^[2]

Career

Returning to China in 1928, Luo began studying politics and economics at the National Jinan University in Shanghai. She performed plays with progressive themes and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1935. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Luo and other activists including He Xiangning and Song Qingling joined the Committee of the Shanghai Women's National Salvation Association, where they provided displaced women with shelter and taught them how to care for the soldiers. As Japan was about to conquer Shanghai, Luo fled to Wuhan where she continued her activism in partnership with Deng Yingchao. Deng, who sat on the council of the National Refugee Children's Association, appointed Luo as the director of an orphanage in Danjiangkou, Hubei.^[2] Luo personally led to safety some six hundred children who had been holed up in a temple, and had the orphanage relocated to Yunmeng County, although it was subsequently closed by the Kuomintang who accused Luo of raising "little Communists".^[3]

In 1939, Luo established the Diyi Pharmaceutical Production Cooperative in Chongqing, which gave her access to the industrial and commercial worlds. In the twilight of the war with Japan, Luo founded a new political entity, the China Democratic National Construction Association. She was one of its executive members and also had executive membership in the Chinese Women's Association.^[4] Luo never stopped campaigning for women's rights and compelling women to join the CCP; she returned to Shanghai after the war, and briefly continued her work in pharmaceuticals, before leaving for Harbin in 1946 to manage a flour mill.^[4] In 1947, Luo was reported in the American publication Huaqiao Ribao (華僑日報) as having disappeared while in Chongqing; it was later revealed that she had gone into hiding for her own safety.^[5] In 1949, Luo helped organise the All-China Democratic Women's Federation (which later became the ACWF) and was also elected secretary-general of the China Democratic National Construction Association.^[4] Luo served as Vice Minister for Labour from 1954 to 1957, Vice Minister for Food Industry (1957-1958), and Vice Minister for Light Industry (1958-1965).^[6] She also served as the deputy secretary-general of the 3rd National People's Congress in 1965.^[7]

v t e 1st Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association
April 1955 – February 1960
Chairman	Huang Yanpei
Vice Chairmen	Li Zhuchen Zhang Naiqi Nan Hanchen Sheng Pihua Shi Cuntong Hu Juewen Hu Zi'ang Sun Qimeng
Secretary-General	Sun Qimeng (concurrently)
Standing Committee Members	Wang Shao'ao Wang Xinyuan Bao Dasan Zhu Jisheng Leng Yu He Songting Shen Suwen Li Chenggan Wu Juennong Zhou Shiguan Hou Debang Yu Huancheng Pu Jiexiu Xu Chonglin Sun Xiaocun Ling Qijun Bi Mingqi Xu Dixin Zhang Yuanshan Guo Dihuo Zhang Jiongbai Chen Weiji Hua Yuqing Xiang Shuxiang Peng Yihu Huang Changshui Huang Jieran Huang Liangchen Huang Yunpeng Yang Meizhen Yang Weiyu Rong Yiren Gong Tianmin Le Songsheng Liu Yifeng Liu Hongsheng Han Wangchen Jian Yujie Luo Shuzhang

v t e 2nd Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association
February 1960 – October 1979
Chairman	Huang Yanpei^{[注 1]} → Li Zhuchen (acting)
Vice Chairmen	Li Zhuchen Nan Hanchen Sheng Pihua Shi Cuntong Hu Juewen Hu Zi'ang Sun Qimeng Guo Dihuo
Secretary-General	Sun Xiaocun
Standing Committee Members	Wang Guangying Wang Genzhong Wang Shao'ao Wang Xinyuan Le Songsheng Liu Guojun Liu Nianyi Liu Jingji Gong Tianmin Zhu Jisheng Hua Yuqing Shen Zicha Sha Qianli Chen Jingshe Chen Weiji Wu Dakun Wu Jinhang Wu Juennong Wu Gengmei Wu Yunshan Zhang Jiongbai Zhang Jingli Luo Shuzhang Zhou Shiguan Rong Yiren Hu Ziying Hou Debang Yu Huancheng Yao Weijun Pu Jiexiu Tang Xunze Xu Chonglin Ling Qijun Zhang Yuanshan Xu Dixin Mo Yichang Huang Changshui Huang Jieran Huang Liangchen Tong Shaosheng Xiang Shuxiang Zi Yaohua Dong Linzhe Pan Shiyan Xue Pinxuan Han Wangchen Wei Ru
↑ Note 1: Huang Yanpei died in 1965

v t e 3rd Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association
October 1979 – November 1983
Chairman	Hu Juewen
Vice Chairmen	Hu Zi'ang Xu Dixin Sun Qimeng Guo Dihuo Sun Xiaocun Zhou Shiguan Tong Shaosheng Pu Jiexiu Wang Guangying Tang Yuanbing Wu Zhichao
Secretary-General	Huang Liangchen
Standing Committee Members	Wang Tao Wang Shaoyan Wang Genzhong Wang Jihua Deng Jixing Gu Gengyu Ye Renshou Zhu Deqin Hua Yuqing Xiang De Liu Gongcheng Liu Bingji Liu Kunshui Liu Jingji Tang Shaoyuan Sun Fuling Li Wenjie Yang Tianshou Yang Meizhen Wu Dakun Wu Juennong Wu Gengmei He Zongqian Sha Qianli Zhang Jingli Zhang Weicen Chen Naichang Chen Guangsheng Chen Zibin Chen Yuanqin Chen Mingshan Chen Weiji Chen Suiheng Luo Shuzhang Rong Yiren Hu Ziying Zhong Fuguang Hou Qixing Yu Zuocheng Zhu Gongjian Mo Yichang Ni Jiaxi Xu Chonglin Guo Shouchang Zi Yaohua Huang Daneng Huang Changshui Huang Jieran Zhang Yuanshan Yu Xiaozhong Qi Qisheng Pan Shiyan Pan Lianzhi

v t e 4th Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association
November 1983 – June 1988
Chairman	Hu Juewen
Vice Chairmen	Hu Zi'ang Xu Dixin Sun Qimeng Guo Dihuo Sun Xiaocun Zhou Shiguan Tong Shaosheng Pu Jiexiu Tang Yuanbing Wu Zhichao Chen Suiheng Chen Mingshan Wan Guoquan Feng Tiyun Huang Daneng
Secretary-General	Jiang Daning
Standing Committee Members	Yu Zijing Wang Tao Wang Guangying Wang Genzhong Wang Jihua Fang Wenyu Deng Jixing Ai Luchuan Lu Yannan Ye Renshou Tian Yupu Cheng Shengsan Shi Xingsan Zhu Shaowen Zhu Deqin Hua Yuqing Xiang De Liu Gongcheng Liu Bingji Liu Kunshui Liu Jingji Sun Yannian Su Baozong Li Wenjie Yang Tianshou Yang Kecheng Yang Meizhen Wu Dakun Wu Juennong Wu Gengmei Shen Hanqing Zhang Shiqian Zhang Huanwen Zhang Jingli Chen Naichang Chen Zibin Chen Zuxiang Luo Shuzhang Meng Zhaobo Rong Yiren Bai Yue Zhong Fuguang Hou Qixing Zhu Gongjian Mo Yichang Ni Jiaxi Xu Chonglin Guo Shouchang Zi Yaohua Pu Liangyuan Huang Liangchen Zhang Yuanshan Dong Youxian Yu Xiaozhong Cai Zaijing Qi Qisheng Pan Lianzhi

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