Yu Guang (; born October 1958) is a

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in the

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of China who served as deputy political commissar of the

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from 2018 to 2021. He was an alternate member of the

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Biography

Yu was born in the town of Tuanshan, Shaodong County (now Shaodong),

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

, in October 1958. He served in the People's Liberation Army General Political Department for a long time. In December 2014, he was appointed head of the Publicity Division of the People's Liberation Army General Political Department, succeeding . He was promoted to assistant director of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission in January 2016, and was promoted again to deputy director in July 2017. One year later, he was commissioned as deputy political commissar of the

. He was promoted to the rank of

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('' shaojiang'') in December 2011 and

('' zhongjiang'') in July 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yu, Guang 1958 births Living people People from Shaodong People's Liberation Army generals from Hunan People's Republic of China politicians from Hunan Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hunan Alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party