Peng Peiyun | |||||||
Native Name: | Chinese: 彭珮云 | ||||||
Office1: | Chairperson of the Red Cross Society of China | ||||||
Term Start1: | 1999 | ||||||
Term End1: | 2009 | ||||||
Predecessor1: | Qian Zhengying | ||||||
Successor1: | Hua Jianmin | ||||||
Office2: | President of the All-China Women's Federation | ||||||
Term Start2: | 1998 | ||||||
Term End2: | 2003 | ||||||
Predecessor2: | Chen Muhua | ||||||
Successor2: | Gu Xiulian | ||||||
Office3: | Chairperson of National Family Planning Commission | ||||||
Term Start3: | January 1988 | ||||||
Term End3: | March 1998 | ||||||
Predecessor3: | Wang Wei | ||||||
Successor3: | Zhang Weiqing | ||||||
Birth Place: | Liuyang, Hunan, Republic of China | ||||||
Party: | Chinese Communist Party (1946–2009) | ||||||
Spouse: | Wang Hanbin | ||||||
Children: | 2 sons | ||||||
Alma Mater: | Tsinghua University | ||||||
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Peng Peiyun (; born December 1929) is a Chinese politician.[1]
Peng was born in Liuyang, Hunan, in December 1929. She was admitted to the National Southwestern Associated University at 15. She graduated from Qinghua University and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1946. She held several positions in the CCP branches in public education institutions. She was assigned to the deputy secretary of the CCP committee in Beijing University before she was denounced by Nie Yuanzi, demoted and sent to the countryside in the Cultural Revolution.[2] [3]
Peng was rehabilitated near the end of the Cultural Revolution. She entered the Ministry of Education and became the vice minister before she was assigned the Minister of the National Family Planning Commission. In 1993 she became a member of the State Council. In 1998, she was elected the Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the Chairwoman of the All-China Women's Federation.[4] In 1999, she was elected the Chairperson of the Red Cross Society of China. She was reelected to the same position in 2004.
Peng was elected as a delegate to the 12th and 13th CCP National Congresses and to the 14th and 15th CCP Central Committees.
Peng married Wang Hanbin, a Chinese politician who was also elected the Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and CCP Central Committee. The couple have four children.
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