Liu Ying was born in October 1905 in Changsha, Hunan Province and died in August 2002. She served as Assistant Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China from 1954 to 1959. Before the founding of the People's Republic, she worked as staff member in the Federation of Trade Unions of Hunan Province, alternate member of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Director General of its Department on the Work of Women, Secretary of Fujian Provincial Committee of the Youth League, and Director General of the Publicity Department and Organization Department of the Central Bureau of Youth Communist China. Liu later took part in the Long March and worked as Director of the Political Department of the Third Tier (the logistic troops of the Red Army during the Long March) and Secretary General of the CPC Central Committee Team. She also worked in Hejiang and Liaoning Provinces respectively as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Provincial Committee and Director General of its Organization Department. After the People's Republic was founded, she served as China's Deputy Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union (January 1950 to November 1954), member of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Assistant Foreign Minister and concurrently Director General of the MFA Personnel Department, and later Secretary of the MFA Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC. She was also a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and was elected member of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CPCCDI) at the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee. Liu resigned from her posts at the CPPCC and the CPCCDI in 1983 and 1985 respectively, and continued to work as Vice President of the China-Russia Friendship Association and an advisor to the National Working Committee on Caring About the Younger Generation. She was awarded the "National Prize for the Elderly with Notable Achievements" in 1989 and conferred with the honor of "Outstanding Individuals in the Work of Caring about the Younger Generation" in 1991. Liu retired in May 1991.