Gu was born in
Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, in 1915. As a student at
Peking University, he participated in the
December 9th Movement of 1935. In 1936, he joined the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and became a member of the university party branch. During the
Second Sino-Japanese War, Gu served as secretary of the underground CCP branch at the
Nanjing Youth Battlefield Service Training Class, as a member of the Hubei Central Provincial Committee, and as secretary of the Zaoyang County Committee. He later became secretary-general of the Eyu Border Region Party Committee. In the
Chinese Civil War period, Gu held positions including director of the Urban Work Section of the CCP Central Plains Bureau, participant in the Central Plains Breakout, deputy secretary of the Fourth Sub-bureau of the Eyu Regional Committee, and head of the Rural Work Group of the Central Plains Bureau's Policy Research Office. After the
establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Gu served as secretary of the Jingzhou Regional Committee in Hubei, deputy director of the Central South Federation of Trade Unions, and later as secretary of the Secretariat and Vice Chairman of the ACFTU. He also held posts as director of the
Hebei Provincial National Defense Industry Office, secretary of its Party Committee, and subsequently as secretary of the
Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, first secretary of the provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, and acting first secretary of
Wuhan. Throughout the 1950s to 1980s, he was a leading figure in both provincial and national trade union organizations. Gu was a delegate to the
12th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, a deputy to the
5th National People's Congress, and a member of the Standing Committee of the
6th National People's Congress. He also served as a member of the 3rd and
4th CPPCC National Committees, and later as a Standing Committee member of the 7th CPPCC. He retired in 1994. Gu died in Beijing on January 23, 2007, at the age of 92. == References ==