He was an alternate member of the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 9th National People's Congress.
[1][2] Chen was born in Shanghai, in December 1931, while his ancestral home in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
In 1955, he was transferred to Beijing Xiehe Hospital (now Peking Union Medical College Hospital) and participated in the Socialist Education Movement in Shou County, Anhui in 1964.
On 16 March 1999, he died from pancreatic cancer in Beijing, at the age of 67.