Huang Guoxian (; born April 1962) is a

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of the Chinese

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(PLAAF). He has served as the inaugural Commander of the

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Air Force since its establishment in February 2016. Prior to that, he was Commander of the

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Air Force and Deputy Commander of the Nanjing MR from 2013 to 2016.

Biography

Huang Guoxian was born in April 1962 in

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

Province. He spent much of his career in the

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Air Force, before being appointed Commander of the PLAAF Fuzhou Forward Headquarters in August 2005. In 2011, he succeeded

Xu Anxiang Xu Anxiang (; born April 1956) is a lieutenant general (''zhong jiang'') of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). He has served as commander of the Guangzhou Military Region Air Force and deputy commander of the Guangzhou MR si ...

as Chief of Staff of the

Air Force. In July 2013, he was promoted to Commander of the Nanjing MRAF, as well as Deputy Commander of the Nanjing MR, replacing Zheng Qunliang. In February 2016, during Central Military Commission

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Xi Jinping Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, s ...

's military reform, Huang was appointed the Air Force Commander of the newly established PLA

. Huang attained the rank of major general in 2011, and was elevated to the rank of lieutenant general (''

zhong jiang (; ja, 将, Shō; ) is the rank held by general officers in some East Asian militaries. The ranks are used in both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan. The People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police use ...

'') on 16 July 2014. He was one of the youngest lieutenant generals in the PLAAF, along with

Ma Zhenjun Ma Zhenjun (; born 1962) is a lieutenant general ('' zhong jiang'') of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) of China. He has been Chief of Staff of the PLAAF since August 2013, and previously served as commander of the Beijing Military ...

and Zhang Yihu. In September 2014, Huang and a delegation of PLAAF officers visited

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, as part of a reciprocal visit to building a strong military to military relationship between the United States and China. He was hosted by General Hawk Carlisle,

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commander.

References

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