He was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, in February 1923, the third son of He Sui [zh], a military officer and politician, and Chen Kunli (陈坤立).

In 1941, the New Fourth Army incident broke out, he dropped out of school after receiving order from the party, and he was accepted to Guanghua University in Chengdu.

Soon after, the contact person took him to meet Qian Ying [zh], director of the Organization Department of the Shanghai Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party.

Under the financial support of the Shanghai Bureau of the CCP Central Committee [zh], He Sui co-founded the Ruiming Company (瑞明公司) with Miao Qiujie.

[2] After the outbreak of the Korea War, the United States imposed a blockade and embargo on China, resulting in a serious shortage of natural rubber as military supplies.

In January 1978, he was transferred to Beijing and appointed vice minister of Forestry, which was reshuffled as Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries in May 1983.