Peng Chong (Chinese: ; March, 1915 - October 18, 2010 ) was a member of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee (1969 87) and its politburo (1977 82); and Secretary General of the National People s Congress (1988 92).Peng Chong, formed name Xu Tieru, was born in Zhangzhou, Fujian in 1915. Unlike most CCP leaders of his generation, he graduated from middle school, and by the age of 15 was active in underground communist activities in his home county. As leader of the local student movement, he joined the Communist Youth League in 1933, and the Party a year later, eventually rising to the post of local Organization Department Director. In 1938, Peng was a regimental political officer in the central Jiangsu New Fourth Army, a district administrator (1938 39) in Wuxian, and back to being a regimental cadre in 1940-42 in the 52nd Regiment of the 18th Brigade, 6th Division, under Tan Zhenlin and Rao Shoukun.