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Fang Fenghui
Fang Fenghui (born April 1951) is a former top general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). He served as the Chief of Joint Staff and a member of the Central Military Commission. He was placed under investigation for corruption in 2017 and subsequently convicted. Biography Fang was born Ma Xianyang () in Chidao Township, Xunyi County, Shaanxi Province. His father Ma Guoxuan () was a military and government officer who died in 1960. After his mother Fang Linjiang () remarried in Bin County, he renamed himself Fang Fenghui using his mother's surname. Fang joined the PLA in February 1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. He served in Xinjiang in his early career. He later served as commander of the Beijing Military Region (2007–2012). and commander of Guangzhou Military Region (2003–2007). Fang achieved the rank of Major general in 1998, Lieutenant general in July 2005 and general in July 2010. He was appointed as the Chief of Joint Staff on October 25, 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fang (surname)
__NOTOC__ Fang () is the List of common Chinese surnames, 47th most prevalent Chinese surname. In Chinese, ''Fāng'' () means "square" or "four-sided". ''Fāng'' () is pronounced ''Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation, Fong'' in Cantonese, ''Hong'' or ''Png'' or ''Pwee'' in some Min Nan dialects and ''Png'' or ''Pung'' in Teochew dialect, Teochew. It is the 56th name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem.K. S. Tom. [1989] (1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom. University of Hawaii Press. . Some more uncommon surnames with romanizations that are also conventionally simplified to "Fang" in English are ''Fáng'' (), meaning "room", and ''Fāng'' (), meaning "fragrant". Etymology During Emperor Yellow Emperor, Huang Di's reign, a kinship, descendant called Yu Lei was awarded the land of Fang (north west of Nanyu, Jingxing County, Nanyu) for his contributions in defeating a foreign tribe. He was thus known as Fang Lei, and his descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangzhou Military Region
The Guangzhou Military Region was from 1955 to 2016 one of the People's Liberation Army PLA Military Regions, located in the south of the People's Republic of China. In May 1949, the Central China (Hua Zhong) Military Region (MR) was formed. In March 1955, it was divided into two, the Guangzhou MR and the Wuhan Military Region. When the Wuhan MR was disbanded in August 1985, its troops stationed around the Hubei province were assigned to the Guangzhou MR. The region was disestablished in 2016 and reorganised as the Southern Theater Command. Just before being disbanded, the Guangzhou MR controlled the Guangdong Province, Guangxi Autonomous Region, Hunan Province, Hubei Province, and the Hainan Province Military Districts. The Hong Kong and Macau garrisons were within the Guangzhou MR area but reported directly to the Central Military Commission. There were two Group Armies within the Region, the 41st Group Army and 42nd Group Army, and in 2006 the International Institute for Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Liberation Army General Staff Department
The Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission (JSDCMC) () is the command organ and the headquarters for the People's Liberation Army (PLA), superseding the former PLA General Staff Department (GSD). It was established on 11 January 2016, under the military reforms of Central Military Commission (CMC) chairman Xi Jinping. Headquartered in Beijing, the Joint Staff Department (JSD) is under the absolute leadership of the CMC and likely serves as an institutional link between members of the CMC and post-2016 PLA theater commands. According to the JSD, its main duties include carrying out combat support planning and combat command support, studying and formulating military strategy and requirements, organizing combat capability assessment, arranging and instructing joint training; and combat readiness and routine war preparedness work. Organization Prior to the 2016 transition, the General Staff Department comprised the following bureaus: * Combat Operations C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Shibo
Zhang Shibo (; born February 1952) is a retired general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army of China. He served as commander of the PLA Hong Kong Garrison, commander of the Beijing Military Region, and president of the PLA National Defence University. Biography Zhang Shibo was born in February 1952 in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province. He joined the PLA in 1970, serving as an ordinary soldier in the Jinan Military Region. He later rose to deputy commander of the 54th Group Army, deputy chief of staff of the Jinan MR, and commander of the 20th Group Army. He graduated from Shandong University with a degree in Marxist philosophy. In 2008, he replaced Lieutenant General Wang Jitang as commander of the PLA Hong Kong Garrison. He attained the rank of lieutenant general (''zhong jiang'') in July 2009. In October 2012, Zhang Shibo was promoted to commander of the Beijing Military Region. In December 2014, Lieutenant General Song Puxuan replaced him as commander of the Beijing MR, and Zhan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhu Qi
Zhu Qi, (; born May 1942) is a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He formerly served as commander of the Beijing Military Region. Biography Zhu Qi is from Xiangyun County, Yunnan, China. He graduated from the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party with a degree in economic administration. In January 1960 he entered the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In August 1961 he entered the Chinese Communist Party. Zhu Qi took part in high-level talks between U.S. and Chinese military officials as part of the Sanye Initiative organized by the East West Institute from June 16 to 19, 2012. Delegates covered topics including U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and managing military relationships. History *From January 1960 to June 1964, squad leader and company clerk *From June 1964 to June 1965, squad leader and battalion secretary *From June 1965 to June 1971, staff officer, operations and training section, regimental command department *From June 1971 to October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xu Fenlin
Xu Fenlin (; born July 1953) is a retired general ('' shangjiang'') of the Chinese People's Liberation Army who served as Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff from 2016 to 2017. Prior to that, he was the final Commander of the Guangzhou Military Region between 2009 and 2016, before its abolition in January 2016. Biography Xu Fenlin was born in July 1953 in Jintan County, Jiangsu in July 1953. He has a bachelor's degree in economics and management from the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party. He attained the rank of major general in July 2002, lieutenant general in July 2008, and full general in July 2013. Xu served as Chief-of-Staff of the Guangzhou Military Region from 2007 to 2009, and was promoted to Commander in 2009. He stayed in the role for some six years, before being transferred to the Joint Staff to serve as deputy chief. He was an alternate member of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
76th Group Army
The 76th Group Army (), formerly the 21st Group Army, is a military formation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Ground Forces (PLAGF). The 76th Group Army is one of twelve total group armies of the PLAGF, the largest echelon of ground forces in the People's Republic of China, and one of three assigned to the nation's Western Theater Command. History The unit served during the Korean War , date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ... when it comprised the 61st, 62nd, and 63rd Divisions. References {{Authority control Field armies of the People's Liberation Army Military units and formations established in 1949 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th Central Committee Of The Chinese Communist Party
The 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was elected by the 18th National Congress on 15 November 2012, and sat in plenary sessions until the communing of the 19th National Congress in 2017. It was formally proceeded by the 17th Central Committee. The committee is composed of full members and alternate members. A member has voting rights, while an alternate does not. If a full member is removed from the CC the vacancy is then filled by an alternate member at the next committee plenum — the alternate member who received the most confirmation votes in favour is highest on the order of precedence. To be elected to the Central Committee, a candidate must be a party member for at least five years. The first plenary session in 2012 was responsible for electing the bodies in which the authority of the Central Committee was invested when it was not in session: the Politburo and the Politburo Standing Committee. It was also responsible for approving the members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese politician who served as the 16–17th general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the 6th president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 2003 to 2013, and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012. He was a member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, China's ''de facto'' top decision-making body, from 1992 to 2012. Hu was the paramount leader of China from 2002 to 2012. Hu rose to power through the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), notably as Party Committee secretary for Guizhou province and the Tibet Autonomous Region, where his harsh repression of dissent gained him attention from the highest levels. He moved up to first secretary of the CCP Central Secretariat and vice president under CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin. Hu was the first leader of the Communist Party from a generation younger than those who participated in the civil war and the founding of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
60th Anniversary Of The People's Republic Of China
The 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China took place on 1 October 2009. A military parade involving 10,000 troops and the display of many high-tech weapons was held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing and various celebrations were conducted all over the country. China's paramount leader Hu Jintao inspected the troops along Chang'an Avenue in Beijing. This parade was immediately followed by a civilian parade involving 100,000 participants. Background The People's Republic of China was founded on 1 October 1949. Since then, celebrations of varying scales occur on National Day each year. Military parades, presided over by CCP Chairman Mao Zedong, were held every year between 1949 and 1959. In September 1960, the Chinese leadership decided that in order to save funds and "be frugal", large-scale ceremonies for National Day would only be held every ten years, with a smaller-scale ceremony every five years. The last large-scale celebration during the Mao era w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
