Introduction to Shi Shaohua

Shi Shaohua is mostly used in personal names. The most famous person is the famous Chinese photographer Shi Shaohua (1918-1998). He was born in Panyu, Guangdong, in Hong Kong in May 1918. He studied in Guangdong in his early years, and successively worked in Shaanxi in 1938. He studied at Beigong School and the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year; after 1939, he successively served as the chief of the Photography Section of the Propaganda Department of the Central Hebei Military Region, and the deputy director of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Pictorial Agency of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region; after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the Central Press Photography Bureau Deputy Secretary-General, Director of the News Photography Department of Xinhua News Agency, Chairman of the Photographic Society of China, Secretary-General of the Culture Group of the State Council, President of Xinhua Publishing House, Chairman of the China Elderly Photographers Association, etc.; Comrade Shi Shaohua is an alternate for the 9th and 10th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Member, member of the 3rd All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, member of the 3rd and 4th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference; died in Beijing on June 30, 1998.