 After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, he was assigned to be head of the Cultural Relic Bureau (文物局), Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and literary research institute, the assistant minister of cultural department, committee member of State Council scientific program committee and Chinese Academy of Science philosophical social sciences, the vice-chairman of Chinese folk literature and art research council, etc.He died in a plane crash in the Soviet Union during his journey in 1958.Zheng Zhenduo was born on 19 December 1898 in Yongjia, Zhejiang Province.