Kang Sheng
Former Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
Kang Sheng, born Zhang Zongke, was a Chinese Communist Party official, best known for having overseen the work of the CCP's internal security and intelligence apparatus during the early 1940s and again at the height of the Cultural Revolution in... Wikipedia
Born: 1898, Zhucheng, Weifang, China
Died: December 16, 1975 (age 77 years), Beijing, China
Children: Zhang Zishi
Party: Communist Party of China
Previous offices: Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (1965–1975), Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (1959–1964), and Director of the Central Social Affairs Department of China (1939–1945)
Education: Shanghai University
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