Fan Xiaojun (; born 1956) is a

general A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of highest military ranks, high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers t ...

of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). He had been Political Commissar of the

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since April 2017, and formerly served as Director of the Political Department of the PLAAF.

Biography

Fan Xiaojun was born in 1956 in Danyang,

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

. He spent his early career in the Chengdu Military Region and the

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before transferring to the PLAAF. From 2005, Fan served in the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region Air Force and the Guangzhou Military Region Air Force. In 2009, he became Political Commissar of the PLAAF's

15th Airborne Corps The People's Liberation Army Air Force Airborne Corps () is an airborne corps under direct command of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). It was reorganized and renamed from the 15th Airborne Corps in May 2017 and now comprises six ...

, China's only corps-level airborne force. In the summer of 2014, he succeeded Lt. Gen.

Yu Zhongfu Yu Zhongfu (; born July 1956) is a general of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) of China. Having served in the PLAAF for more than 40 years, he was appointed Political Commissar of the PLAAF in July 2015. He was replaced by genera ...

as Political Commissar of the Jinan Military Region Air Force, and concurrently Deputy Political Commissar of the Jinan MR. A year later, he replaced Lt. Gen. as Director of the Political Department of the PLAAF, and was promoted to the rank of

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. In April 2017, he was appointed Political Commissar of the

, succeeding Gen.

Chu Yimin Chu Yimin (; born July 1953) is a retired general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). He was the inaugural Political Commissar of the Northern Theater Command, and previously served as Political Commissar of the Shenyang Military Regio ...

to become the first military-region level political commander from the Air Force. In October 2017, he was elected as a member of the

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References

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