Hou Jizhen (; born November 1951) is a retired

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('' zhongjiang'') of the

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(PLA) who served as chief of staff of the

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from 2009 to 2014. He was a representative of

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Biography

Hou was born in

Xiajin County Xiajin County () is a county in the northwest of Shandong Province, China, bordering Hebei to the west. It is the westernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Dezhou Dezhou () is a prefecture-level city in northwestern ...

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

, in November 1951. He served in the 23rd Army for a long time. In December 2003, he was appointed commander of the

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, replacing Wang Guosheng. In December 2005, he was commissioned as commander of the

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, succeeding . In June 2009, he rose to become chief of staff of the

, and then deputy commander of the region in December 2013, serving in the post until his retirement in December 2014. He was promoted to the rank of

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('' shaojiang'') in 2002 and

('' zhongjiang'') in July 2010.

References

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