Sun Dafa (; November 1945 – 26 September 2019) was a general of the Chinese

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(PLA) who served as Political Commissar of the

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Biography

Sun was born in November 1945 in

Jinzhai Jinzhai County (), previously Lihuang County (, named after Wei Lihuang), is a county in the west of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Henan to the northwest and Hubei to the southwest. It is under the jurisdi ...

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

, Republic of China. He enlisted in the

in 1964 and joined the

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in 1968. After 1977, he served as the secretary of

Li Desheng Li Desheng (; 4 May 1916 – 8 May 2011) was a general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He was born in Xin County, Henan, China, an area now known as the "Cradle of Generals" for the large number of senior military officers born in the ...

, then the commander of the

Shenyang Military Region The Shenyang Military Region was one of seven military regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. It has command and control of military and armed police forces in the three northeast provinces of Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning, which ...

. In May 1984, he was appointed Political Commissar of the 115th Division of the

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. In June 1990, he was promoted to Director of the Political Department of the 16th Group Army, and attained the rank of major general. He was later promoted to political commissar of the 16th Army. In January 1999, Sun became Director of the Political Department of the

, and attained the rank of lieutenant general in 2000. He was transferred to the

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in August 2003 and became Director of the Political Department there. In January 2005, he became vice political commissar and secretary of discipline commission of the Nanjing Military Region. From 2005, he served as Political Commissar of the

. He was made a full general in June 2007. Sun was a member of the

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. He graduated from

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and has authored some military books, for example ''High-Tech War Strategy'' (). Sun died in

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on 26 September 2019, aged 73.

References

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