With ancestry in Guangshan County (光山縣), Henan, she was born Deng Wenshu (鄧文淑) in Nanning, Guangxi.

Growing up in a poverty-stricken family, her father died when she was at a young age and her single mother taught and practiced medicine.

[4] After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Deng Yingchao, as the only female representative of the Chinese Communist Party, attended the first Political Consultative Conference in Chongqing.

In March 1978, after being re-elected as the vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress, Deng Yingchao served as the second secretary of the newly restored CCP Central Commission for Disciplinary Inspection at the third plenary session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party that year.

Soon thereafter, Deng Yingchao used her early contacts and contacts with the Kuomintang, as well as her network and reputation in the United Front work, to fully take charge of the work of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in Taiwan, and concurrently served as the leader of the newly established "Central Leading Group for Taiwan Affairs".

From June 1983 to March 1988, she served as Chairwoman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

[9] In a 1947 policy meeting on land reform, she stated that "women function as great mobilizers when they speak bitterness.

However, they adopted several orphans of "revolutionary martyrs", including Li Peng, who later became the Premier of the People's Republic of China.