[2][3] After the 1911 Revolution, he joined the Kuomintang and took part in the struggle against Yuan Shikai and the Constitutional Protection Movement.
[2][3] Influenced by communism during the May Fourth Movement, he joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1923.
[2][3] He mainly engaged in propaganda, intelligence and financial work secretly in Changsha, Wuhan, Shanghai, Jinan, Chongqing, and British Hong Kong.
[2][3] After the establishment of the Communist State in 1949, he successively served as vice minister of light industry and deputy head of United Front Work Department.
[3] His son Gong Yuzhi was a Chinese Communist Party theorist and politician.