Gong Yinbing

In this Chinese name, the family name is Gong.

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

Gong Yinbing
龚饮冰
Vice Minister of Light Industry
In office 1949–1957
Minister	Huang Yanpei Jia Tuofu
Personal details
Born	1896 Changsha County, Hunan, China
Died	June 26, 1976(1976-06-26) (aged 79–80) Beijing, China
Political party	Kuomintang Chinese Communist Party
Relations	Gong Ke
Children	Gong Yuzhi
Alma mater	Hunan University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	龚饮冰
Traditional Chinese	龔飲冰
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Gōng Yǐnbīng
Gong Zaiseng
Simplified Chinese	龚再僧
Traditional Chinese	龔再僧
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Gōng Zàisēng
Gong Zehong
Simplified Chinese	龚泽鸿
Traditional Chinese	龔澤鴻
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Gōng Zéhòng
Zhang Ruochen
Simplified Chinese	张若臣
Traditional Chinese	張若臣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhāng Ruóchén

Biography

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

Influenced by communism during the May Fourth Movement, he joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1923. He mainly engaged in propaganda, intelligence and financial work secretly in Changsha, Wuhan, Shanghai, Jinan, Chongqing, and British Hong Kong. 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.

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. During the Cultural Revolution, he was brought to be persecuted and suffered political persecution.

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

Family

His son Gong Yuzhi was a Chinese Communist Party theorist and politician. 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.