Fang Yunhe

Feng Yunhe (1898/ April 1900 – 14 December 1988) was a Chinese scientist who worked in the Chinese government from 1949–1954 as the Minister of Textile Industry. Alongside Shi Liang and Li Dequan, who were appointed the same year, she was the first female cabinet minister in China (not counting He Xiangning, who served prior to unification). Feng Yunhe was an expert in ramie fibre. She was one of the founders of the China National Democratic Construction Association, one of the eight legally recognised minor political parties in the People's Republic of China. She was the first woman on record to earn a PhD in chemical engineering in the United States. Whilst in America, she was known as Yun Hao Feng or Ruth Feng. In 1930 she and Mary Bucher were members of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Student Chapter in Ohio, the first cohort group to allow female membership.

Political positions Feng Yunhe was a member of the First to Third National People's Congress, a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Feng Yunhe died in Guangzhou in on 14 December 1988 at the age of 89.