China Vitae

Biography

Guo Xiuyi, female, Han nationality, is a native of Zhongshan, Guangdong Province. She was born in 1911 and graduated from the Shanghai Art School for Girls in 1930. She joined the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party in 1979.

During the War of Resistance to Japan, Guo participated in several wartime activities. She was an executive council member of the Wartime Children Protection and Nursery Association. She served concurrently as deputy director of the Recruit Department. She was also head of a women‘s work team for the Kuomintang army. In 1947, she left China and moved to Germany; she returned home in 1950.

Guo‘s involvement with the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party is linked to her husband, the late Huang Qixiang. Huang was a founder of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party. After joining the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party in 1979, Guo began holding positions with the party. In 1997, she was elected honorary vice-chairman of the 12th Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party Central Committee.