Born in a famous family, his grandfather Zhang Yishan (a wanderer on the sea) was a famous historian, educator and calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. His father (a classmate of Tianjin Nankai Middle School) and his mother Zhu (the daughter of the former transportation director of Beiyang government). /kloc-0 went to Germany to study in the autumn of 927, 1929 10 joined the German Communist Youth League and kpd China Language Group in October. 193 1 Return to China at the end of the year to participate in the anti-Japanese national salvation movement. 1935 was admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent results. During his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he was engaged in the underground work of the Party in the China Red Cross Rescue Team. 1943, Bachelor of Engineering, Tsinghua University. At the end of 1944, he was transferred to the Chongqing office of 18 Army as a member of the foreign affairs team of Chongqing office. Later, he served as deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Group of the Nanjing delegation of the Communist Party of China, and deputy director of the Translation Department of Zhou Enlai and the Compilation Department of the Foreign Affairs Group of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. /kloc-at the beginning of 0/949, Tianjin was liberated and served as the director of the foreign affairs department of Tianjin Municipal People's Government.