From 65438 to 0926, he attended the meeting of activists who joined the Party in Guangzhou hosted by Comrade Mao Zedong, and later served as the Commissioner of the Peasant Movement of the Northern District Committee of the Communist Party of China and the secretary of the Yutian County Committee of the Communist Party of China.
1927 10 served as commander-in-chief, organized and led the peasant armed riots in Yutian and four nearby counties, founded the JD.COM People's Revolutionary Army, launched the agrarian revolution, and set up the red flag of the first armed struggle led by China in the north ruled by Beiyang warlords.
After 1928, Zhang Mingyuan successively served as member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shunzhi Provincial Committee, secretary of the Peasant Movement Committee, secretary of the CPC Pingjin District Committee, propaganda minister of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Anti-Enemy Support Association, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Beiyue District, Rereka District, propaganda minister, and acting secretary of the Party Committee of Rerekiao District.
During the War of Liberation, he served as member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Hebei-Liaoning Branch, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Jidong District, director of the administrative office, and commander of the wartime logistics headquarters of Jidong District.
After the founding of New China, Zhang Mingyuan served as the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Northeast Bureau, the Deputy Minister of Organization Department, the Deputy Secretary of Northeast Bureau, the Vice Chairman of Northeast People's Government and the Vice Chairman of Northeast Administrative Committee.
65438-0955 transferred to China Academy of Sciences as Deputy Director of the General Office.
During the "Cultural Revolution", he was persecuted by the Gang of Four.
1979 deputy director of the state machinery industry Committee.
1988 Member of the Advisory Panel of the State Planning Commission.
Zhang Mingyuan is a member of the Standing Committee of the Sixth China People's Political Consultative Conference and a special representative of the 13th, 14th and 15th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China (CPC).