Luo Shuzhang

Luo Shuzhang
Luo Shuzhang
Hanyu Pinyin	Luó Shūzhāng
IPA	[lwǒ ʂúʈʂáŋ]

Luo Shuzhang
Luo Shuzhang
羅叔章
	People's Republic of China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party (1935-1965)

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.

Early life

Luo Shuzhang was born on December 21, 1899, in

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

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

secretary-general of the 3rd National People's Congress in 1965.^[7]

Final years and death

Luo retired from politics during the Cultural Revolution and, apart from being appointed as Honorary Vice-chairperson of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce in 1988, little is known about her final years. She died on January 30, 1992, in Beijing, aged 92.^[7]