Li Jing (; 1 March 1930 – 30 December 2022) was a Chinese general in the

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who served as commander of the People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force from 1983 to 1990. Li was a delegate to the 7th National People's Congress. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 9th

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. He was a member of the

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Biography

Li was born in the town of , Teng County (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 ...

, on 1 March 1930. He enlisted in the

(PLA) in 1946, and joined the

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(CCP) in September 1949. During the

Chinese Civil War The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and forces of the Chinese Communist Party, continuing intermittently since 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949 with a Communist victory on m ...

, Li served in the war and engaged in the Menglianggu campaign, , and Yanzhou campaign. After the founding of the Communist State in 1949, the Communist government set up the People's Liberation Army Air Force and founded the PLA Air Force Aviation School, in which Li was trained to fly

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. He participated in 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 ...

after graduation. In 1955, Li was transferred to the People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force, where he successively served as captain, deputy regimental commander, regimental commander, deputy division commander, and division commander. He was promoted to become deputy chief of staff of the

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in July 1973. In 1980, he was made deputy commander of the People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force, and before long he became deputy commander of the People's Liberation Army Navy. He was commissioned as commander of the People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force in August 1983, and served until April 1990. In November 1992, he was appointed deputy chief of the general staff of the People's Liberation Army General Staff Department, serving in the post until his retirement in July 1995. Li was promoted to the rank of vice admiral ('' zhongjiang'') in 1988, and

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('' shangjiang'') in May 1994. Li died on 30 December 2022 in

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, at the age of 92, from COVID-19.

References

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