Why isn't He Shun 'an a chess grandmaster?

When the first batch of chess masters and grandmasters in China were evaluated (1982), He Shun 'an had died (197 1), so he was not even a chess master, just as Xu Tianli said in 1960 that "he has no championship life" (of course, there would be no chess grandmasters. The national champion of that year was Hu Ronghua, who was only 15 years old. )