Fu Quanyou (; born November 1930) is a general of the

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Biography

Fu was born in Guo County (now Yuanping),

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-leve ...

in 1930. He joined the

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in October 1946, and the

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in August 1947. He joined the Chinese People's Volunteer Army in February 1953 and fought in Korea until October 1958 when he returned to China. In 1960 he graduated from the PLA's higher military academy. He became the commander of Chengdu Military Region in June 1985, and the commander of

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in May 1990. He was a member of 12th - 15th CCP central committees, and a delegate in the 8th and

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. He was made

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('' zhongjiang'') in 1988 and

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('' shangjiang'') in 1993. From October 1992 to September 1995, he was the director of the General Logistics Department of the PLA. He was promoted to the head of General Staff Department of the PLA in September 1995. Fu was a member of the Central Military Commission from October 1992 until his retirement in March 2003.

References

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