Dong Fureng, male, Han nationality, was born in 1927. He graduated from the Economics Department of Wuhan University in 1950 and received an associate doctorate from Moscow National Institute of Economics in 1957.
Even before he graduated from university, Dong served as an economics department teaching assistant. In the late 1950s, he joined the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as an associate researcher in the institute of economics – serving in that position until 1976. He later headed the academy's business leadership group at the institute and in 1985 was made the director of the institute of economics at the academy. Four years later, in 1989, he became honorary director of the institute.
A professor at Peking University, Wuhan University, and Renmin University, Dong has a long involvement with NPC politics. He was a delegate to the 8th NPC, where he also was the vice-chairman of the finance affairs committee. In 1991, he was an adviser to the Environmental Protection Committee of the State Council and later an adviser to the State Environmental Protection Administration. Dong is a member of the National Political Consultative Conference.