Xu Guangping

Xu Guangping (February 12, 1898 - March 3, 1968, formerly known as Xu Chongli, pen name Jing Song), a native of Guangzhou, Guangdong, was a Chinese female politician and social activist. After 1949, she served as deputy secretary-general of the Government Affairs Council, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice-chairman of the All-China Women's Federation, vice-chairman of the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy, and member of the Bureau of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Xu Guangping was a student of the writer Lu Xun and later lived with him. She is also the aunt of Hong Kong actor Hui Siu-hsiung.