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Biography Revised: 6/6/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006
Biography
Chen Suiheng, male, Han nationality, is a native of Huaining, Anhui Province. He was born in 1915 and graduated from St. John's University in Shanghai. Before China's liberation, he worked at an ice plant in Sichuan and after 1949 was head of a flour mill in Nanjing.
Some time thereafter, Chen became chairman of the Nanjing Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce and moved progressively in that sphere from the provincial to the national level, ending as an advisor to the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. From 1981 to 1983, he was vice-mayor of Nanjing.
Chen was very active in CPPCC affairs, serving four terms as a member of the CPPCC National Committee and three terms as vice-chairman of the CPPCC Jiangsu Provincial Committee. Also, at both the provincial and national level he held positions in the China Democratic National Construction Association, one of China's eight non-communist parties. In 1997, he was named honorary vice-chairman of the 7th China Democratic National Construction Association Central Committee.
