Zhu Shengling (; born November 1957) is a general of the Chinese

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...

. He has served as Political Commissar of the

Central Theater Command The Central Theater Command () is one of the five theater commands of the People's Liberation Army of China, and was founded on 1 February 2016. Its predecessors were the Beijing Military Region and Jinan Military Region. The International In ...

since 2019. He previously served as Political Commissar of the

People's Armed Police ) , abbreviation = PAP ("People's Armed Police") CAPF ("Chinese Armed Police Force"), formerly abbreviated''Wujing'' ( zh , s = 武警 , p = Wǔjǐng , l = Armed Police , labels = no ), or WJ as on vehicle license plates , patch ...

from 2017 to 2019.

Biography

Zhu Shengling was born November 1957 in

Dongtai Dongtai () is a coastal county-level city under the administration of Yancheng, Jiangsu province, China. It has a population of roughly 1,170,000 estimated for 2007. Out of the total population, about 260,000 live in the Dongtai urban core, others ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

Province. He has a master's degree in military sciences. Zhu spent most of career in the former

Nanjing Military Region The Nanjing Military Region () was one of the former seven military command regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Its jurisdiction covers all military and armed police located in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Shanghai ...

, serving successively as Director of the Political Department of the 31st Group Army, Political Commissar of the

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...

Military District, Political Commissar of the Shanghai Garrison, and Director of the Political Department of the Nanjing Military Region from December 2014. During Central Military Commission

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's military reform in January 2016, Zhu was appointed the inaugural Political Commissar of the newly established

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, serving alongside director Sheng Bin. In August 2016, both Zhu and Sheng were promoted to the rank of

lieutenant general Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...

(''

zhong jiang (; ja, 将, Shō; ) is the rank held by general officers in some East Asian militaries. The ranks are used in both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan. The People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police use ...

''). In January 2017, Zhu was appointed Political Commissar of the

, succeeding the retiring general

Sun Sijing Sun Sijing (; born December 1951) is a retired general of the People's Liberation Army who served as Political Commissar of the People's Armed Police. Biography Sun Sijing was born in Qingdao, Shandong in December 1951. He joined the People's ...

. In January 2017, Zhu was appointed Political Commissar of the

, succeeding the retiring general Yin Fanlong. In October 2017, he was elected a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

References

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