Zhao Erlu (

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: 赵尔陆;

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: Zhào Ěrlù; 1905 – February 2, 1967) was a general in the

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of China.

Biography

Early life

Zhao was born in Chunxian (Now Yuanping City) in the

Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...

Province.

Military career

Zhao participated in the

Nanchang Uprising The Nanchang Uprising () was the first major Nationalist Party of China–Chinese Communist Party engagement of the Chinese Civil War, begun by the Chinese Communists to counter the Shanghai massacre of 1927 by the Kuomintang. The Kuomint ...

in 1927, and joined the

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that year. He was the commander of the Hebei-Shanxi Military Region, the political

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of the Hebei-Shanxi army group, and the chief of staff of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region. When the North China Military Region was founded in 1948, he was appointed as the chief of staff. Zhao was the No. two chief of staff in the No. 4 Field Army and was made a general in 1955. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, he was appointed as the second chief of staff of the Mid-South Military Region. He was the director of the No. 2 and No. 1 Departments of Mechanical Industry. He was appointed as the vice director of the National Economy Commission in 1960. He was also the executive vice director of the office of national defense industry in the state council, and the director of the political department of the national defense industry.

Death

Zhao died of a sudden heart attack on February 2, 1967, at the age of 62. {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhao, Erlu 1905 births People's Liberation Army generals from Shanxi 1967 deaths People from Xinzhou