Li Jinai (; b. July 1942) is a

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in the

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Biography

Li Jinai was born in

Teng County Teng County or Tengxian (; za, Dwngz Yen) is a county of eastern Guangxi, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Wuzhou. , it had a population of 1,125,264 residing in an area of . The county is divided into a nort ...

(now Tengzhou),

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 July 1942. He joined the

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(CPC) in May 1965 and joined the

(PLA) in December 1967. He graduated from the

Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology (; abbreviation: HIT or ) is a public research university and a member of China's elite C9 League and a member of the University Alliance of the Silk Road. HIT is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class A Doubl ...

in 1966 majoring in Engineering Mechanics. He was rose to the General Political Department of the PLA in 1985 and became the deputy director there in 1990. From 1992 to 1998, he served the State Commission of Science and Technology for National Defense Industry as deputy political commissar and later political commissar. From 1998 to 2002, he was the political commissar and vice party's secretary of the General Armament Department and was elected as director of that department as well as a member of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Communist Party in 2002. One year later, he was elected as a member of CMC of the state. In September 2004, he was appointed the director of the General Political Department of the PLA while holding the position of member of CMC of the party and the state. He was an alternate member of the

14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China The 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was in session from 1992 to 1997. It held seven plenary sessions. It was preceded by the 13th Central Committee. It was elected by the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party ...

and a regular member of the

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and 17th central committees.

References

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