| Office1: | Minister of Education | ||||||
| Term Start1: | 4 May 1982 | ||||||
| Term End1: | 18 June 1985 | ||||||
| Premier1: | Zhao Ziyang | ||||||
| Predecessor1: | Jiang Nanxiang | ||||||
| Successor1: | Li Peng | ||||||
| He Dongchang | |||||||
| Native Name: | 何东昌 | ||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||
| Birth Date: | April 1923 | ||||||
| Birth Place: | Zhuji, Zhejiang, China | ||||||
| Death Place: | Beijing, China | ||||||
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Alma Mater: | National Southwestern Associated University | ||||||
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He Dongchang (; April 1923 – 23 January 2014) was a Chinese politician who served as minister of education from 1982 to 1985.[1]
He was a member of the 12th and 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a delegate to the 3rd and 5th National People's Congress. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
He was born in Zhuji, Zhejiang, in April 1923.[1] In 1941, he enrolled at National Southwestern Associated University, where he majored in the Department of Aeronautics.[1]
After graduation in 1947, he taught at Peiyang University (now Tianjin University).[1] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in August of the same year.[1] A year later, he moved to Tsinghua University, where he presided over the establishment of the Department of Engineering Physics and also served as the department head.[1] In the winter of 1973, he waslabeled as "a representative figure of the bourgeois restoration forces" by Chi Qun, and later reinstated in 1977.[1] [2] After the Cultural Revolution, he continued to work at Tsinghua University, where he was promoted to deputy party secretary in May 1977 and to vice president in 1978.[1]
In April 1982, he was appointed minister of education, in addition to serving as president of the Open University Of China since September 1984.[1]
On 23 January 2014, he died of an illness in Beijing, at the age of 90.[1]