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Fu Dongju (December 20, 1924 - July 2, 2007), also known as Fu Dong, was a reporter and a newspaper editor for People's Daily and was later a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. She was the eldest daughter of Fu Zuoyi and Zhang Jinqiang and was the big sister of Fu Xiju and Fu Ruiyuan.
In 1942, after graduating from high school, she entered the National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming with a major in English. Long Yun, who ruled Yunnan at the time, was more liberal, allowing the CCP and various other democratic parties to operate, allowing her to participate in the student movement during her college years and became a member of the CCP Underground Organization. In December 1945, she joined the Democratic Youth League, a peripheral organization of the CCP in Kunming.
During the Pingjin campaign, Fu Zuoyi was surrounded by many underground CCP members, including his secretary, major general , , and others. They worked with Fu Zuoyi through Liu Houtong, , and others that had ties with him to persuade him to leave Chiang Kai-shek's camp and have talks with the CCP. Due to this, the CCP did not need Fu Dong to provide specific military information, but hoping that she could persuade her father to talk to the CCP.
Fu Dong facilitated the secret talks between the Communists and her father in an effort to obtain his surrender.
At the time, Fu Dong reported to , an underground member of the CCP, every two days on her father's mood changes, and sent them to the front-line headquarters of the People's Liberation Army through radio. Her job was to tell the CCP of her father's ideas and demands, and then to tell her father about the CCP's ideas and decisions, playing the role of the middleman. Fu Zouyi's concerns at that time were fear and sorry for his subordinates and friends, surrendering to the CCP, and worrying about the future arrangements of his troops, especially cadres. After several negotiations, on 21 January 1949, Xiaojun returned to Beijing, Wang Kejun, Director of the Political Department of Beijing, on behalf of Fu Zuojun, officially wrote the "Peaceful Solution to the Beijing problem", and on 31 January the Chinese People's Liberation Army entered Beijing. Throughout the Pingjin campaign, Fu Dong was always by her father's side. In his memoirs, he expressed his great appreciation for Fu Dong's role in the war.
After the Peaceful Liberation of Beijing, Fu Dong went to Tianjin and joined the Progress Daily newspaper as an editor, using the pen name "Fu dong". after Progress Daily was suspended, Fu Dong joined the southwest service corps of the Second Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation army in August 1949, and went on foot with the troops from Hunan to Kunming, Yunnan Province, where she later worked. in August 1949, she participated in the founding of the Yunnan Daily newspaper. In 1951, during the Korean War, Chen Geng sent her back to Beijing, and when Shuai Mengqi left her in the People's Daily newspaper when she saw that she was not healthy. In March 1951, she was transferred to the press department and the literature and art department. In 1952, she married Zhou Yizhi, the Chief Correspondent of the Hong Kong bureau of People's Daily.
Fu Dong's home was located in Chongwenmen, Beijing, where she lived with her unmarried brother Fu Ruiyan. the house is decorated by the public. Fu Dong suffered from a variety of diseases and illnesses in her later years, but due to the fact that she was a retired cadre, medical expenses were fully reimbursed in accordance with the provisions of the state.
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