In 1943, Ruan went to the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region to join the revolution from the Girls' High School of Beijing Normal University. in November 1943, she became the secretary of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region Senate. She graduated from the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Teachers' Training School in Yan'an in 1944, and then worked at the Ganquan County of Yan'an in 1944. in 1945, she worked as a teacher in the middle school in Yan'an. After she got married on May 24th 1945, she was the publicity officer in the Political Department of the Hui People's Detachment of the First Brigade of Instruction.[1] After the surrender of Japan, she went to Northeast China with the cadre group of the Hui Min Detachment (Chinese: 回民支队),[2] and was appointed as the publicity officer of Kangping County Committee, the secretary of Kangping County Work Committee of five districts, the director of Women's Federation of Fakou County, the publicity officer of the First District Committee, the organizer of the "Popular Newspaper" (Chinese: 大众报),[3] and the invited correspondent of the provincial newspaper of the CCP Liaojiao Provincial Committee, experiencing the guerrilla warfare in the frontline of the Chinese Communist Party and Kuomintang.[4] In 1949, she worked in the Criminal Division of the Tianjin Municipal People's Court.[5]
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, she served as director of the first division of the Rural Work Department of the CCP Jiangxi Provincial Committee, executive director of the Jiangxi Writers' Association, and then vice president of the Party School of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee. In 1959, she became the first secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, and deputy editor-in-chief of the Guangzhou Daily,[6] and in 1968, director of the Television Department of Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Broadcasting. In 1971, she became deputy director and secretary of the Party Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Broadcasting. In 1976, she became deputy director of China Radio International.[7][8]