[1] 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).

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.

[3] After graduating, she returned to China and taught at Yanjing University, where she went to the University of Berlin, Germany in 1933 to conduct research on rayon and invented the first rayon made from grass fibres, returning to China in 1936 to serve as a commissioner of the Central Economic Commission.

In 1938 she moved to Chongqing to set up the Southwest Chemical Industry Manufacturing Factory, where she conducted research on ramie processing and eventually spun out the "Cloud Silk", known as Yunsi fiber.

[1] After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Feng Yunhe became an advisor to the Ministry of Textile Industry and Deputy Director of the Guangdong Chemical Research Institute, and in 1951, she began researching the chemical denaturation of ramie fibres, which was successful after five years of experiments.