[2] Her father participated in training drills organized by the Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and reportedly returned home to teach his daughter revolutionary songs.

An uncle later described her as a smart and alert young girl, who was more use than the older male youths, and led the Children's Corps in guard duty.

In 1945, Han's mother joined the Chinese Communist Party and worked for the National Salvation Women's Corps (Chinese: 妇救会), using the family's crops to feed members of the Eighth Route Army,[2] and Han entered the workforce in 1945.

[1] Han never accompanied Chairman Hua on business trips abroad and the two rarely appeared in public together.

She served as director of the cadre department of the import-export company of the Ministry of Light Industry (Chinese: 轻工业部) from 1975.