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He Dongchang (Chinese: 何东昌; April 1923 – 23 January 2014) was a Chinese politician who served as minister of education from 1982 to 1985.^[1]

He was a member of the 12th and 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a delegate to the 3rd and 5th National People's Congress. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

He was born in Zhuji, Zhejiang, in April 1923.^[1] In 1941, he enrolled at National Southwestern Associated University, where he majored in the Department of Aeronautics.^[1]

After graduation in 1947, he taught at Peiyang University (now Tianjin University).^[1] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in August of the same year.^[1] A year later, he moved to Tsinghua University, where he presided over the establishment of the Department of Engineering Physics and also served as the department head.^[1] In the winter of 1973, he waslabeled as "a representative figure of the bourgeois restoration forces" (资产阶级复辟势力代表人物) by Chi Qun, and later reinstated in 1977.^[1][2] After the Cultural Revolution, he continued to work at Tsinghua University, where he was promoted to deputy party secretary in May 1977 and to vice president in 1978.^[1]

In April 1982, he was appointed minister of education, in addition to serving as president of the Open University Of China since September 1984.^[1]

On 23 January 2014, he died of an illness in Beijing, at the age of 90.^[1]