Xu Liqing

Xu Liqing () (April 5, 1910 – January 6, 1983) birth name Xu Yingqing (), was a lieutenant general in the

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. He was born in Shangcheng County, Henan Province (his birthplace is now part of

Jinzhai County Jinzhai County (), previously Lihuang County (, named after Wei Lihuang), is a county in the west of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Henan to the northwest and Hubei to the southwest. It is under the jurisdi ...

, Anhui Province). In August 1929 he joined the

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and the Communist Party of China that September. In the first Chinese Civil War, he was active in the border region of Hubei, Henan and Anhui. In 1940, he returned to Yan'an, then headquarters of communist and placed in charge of the Shaanxi-

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

- Ningxia region. {{Authority control 1910 births 1983 deaths People's Liberation Army generals from Henan People from Jinzhai County Eighth Route Army generals