National Southwestern Associated University
Peng was admitted to the National Southwestern Associated University at 15. She graduated from Qinghua University and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) in 1946. She held several positions in the CPC branches in public education institutions. She was assigned to the deputy secretary of the CPC committee in Beijing University before she was denounced by Nie Yuanzi, demoted and sent to the countryside in the Cultural Revolution.