Chu Qing (; March 1923 – 21 February 2016), born Zhan Yongzhu (), was a bureaucrat of the

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. She was the widow of General

Su Yu Su Yu (; August 10, 1907 – February 5, 1984), Courtesy name Yu (裕) was a Chinese military commander, a general of the People's Liberation Army. He was considered by Mao Zedong to be among the best commanders of the PLA, only next to P ...

Biography

Born in

Yangzhou Yangzhou, postal romanization Yangchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province (Suzhong), East China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Ya ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its c ...

, she began to participate in the revolution in November 1938, and joined the

Communist Party of China The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ...

in March 1939. She served as a secretary in the headquarters in Jiangnan and Subei or

New Fourth Army The New Fourth Army () was a unit of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China established in 1937. In contrast to most of the National Revolutionary Army, it was controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and not by the ruling Ku ...

. She also worked in No. 1 division of New Fourth Army, New Fourth Army headquarters in Huanghuatang, East China bureau of CPC's central committee, Jiangsu-Zhejiang Military Region, Central China bureau of CPC's central committee, Central China Military Region, East China Field Army, and CPC's central committee in Jinan City. She was married to

on December 26, 1941. She retired from the

army An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

in 1952, and became the director of the office of policy study in the Ministry of Commerce. In 1970 she became the senior secretary in the Department of Planning Superintendence at the PLA Academy of Military Science.

Retirement and death

Chu retired in July 1983 and died in Beijing on 21 February 2016. She was predeceased by her husband in 1984, with whom she had two sons Su Rongsheng (粟戎生, b. 1942), Su Hansheng () and daughter Su Huining ().

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Biography of Chu Qing
1923 births 2016 deaths Politicians from Yangzhou People's Republic of China politicians from Jiangsu Chinese Communist Party politicians from Jiangsu 20th-century Chinese women politicians {{China-politician-stub