Yang Huaiqing (; February 1939 – 12 December 2012) was an

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in the

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(PLA Navy) of China. He was a member of the

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and 16th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a delegate to the

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Biography

Yang was born in

Shouguang County Shouguang () is a county-level city in the north-central part of Shandong Province, China, situated on the southwest shore of the Laizhou Bay. Under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Weifang, it has people residing within the mun ...

(now Shouguang),

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 February 1939. He enlisted in the

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(PLA) in January 1958, and joined the

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(CCP) in May 1960. He was assigned to the

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in August 1970. He moved up the ranks to become deputy head of Cadre Division of the Political Department in September 1981 and head in June 1983. He became director of the Political Department of the in August 1985, and two years later entered the

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. In January 1988, he became deputy political commissar of the , rising to political commissar six months later. He served as deputy director of the PLA Navy Political Department in June 1990, and two years later promoted to the director position. He was promoted to deputy political commissar of the

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in December 1993. In July 1995, he was promoted again to become political commissar. He was removed from public office and forced into retirement alongside

Shi Yunsheng Shi Yunsheng (; born 1940 in Fushun, Liaoning) is a retired naval aviator and admiral of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China. He was the fifth commander of the PLAN (1996–2003). He was the commander of air force of South Sea Fle ...

in May 2003 due to the military disaster of Chinese submarine ''361''. He died of an illness in

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, at the age of 73. He attained the rank of

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('' shaojiang'') in July 1990, vice admiral ('' zhongjiang'') in July 1994, and

('' shangjiang'') in June 2000.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yang, Huaiqing 1939 births 2012 deaths People from Shouguang PLA National Defence University alumni Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party alumni People's Liberation Army generals from Shandong People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong Members of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 8th National People's Congress