Yao Zhe (, name at birth: Yáo Zhìzhāng 姚秩章) (August 28, 1906 – May 27, 1979) was a

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, ...

lieutenant general. He was born in

Shaoyang County Shaoyang County () is a county in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located in the southwest of the province, the county is bordered to the north by Dongkou County, to the west by Huitong and Jingzhou ...

, Hunan Province. Yao joined the

Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army or Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, commonly known as the Chinese Red Army or simply the Red Army, are the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party. It was formed when Communist ...

in July 1928 and the Chinese Communist Party in 1929. He fought alongside

Liu Zhidan Liu Zhidan (4 October 1903 – 14 April 1936), also known as Liu Chih-tan, was a Chinese military commander and Communist leader, who founded the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Base Area in north-west China, which became the Yan'an Soviet. Early life Li ...

in the Chinese Civil War. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was active in Daqing Mountain as part of 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 ...

- Chahar Province- Hebei. He participated in the Datong-Jining Campaign against Fu Zuoyi.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yao, Zhe 1906 births 1979 deaths People's Liberation Army generals from Hunan People from Shaoyang Deputy commanders of the Wuhan Military Region Delegates to the 4th National People's Congress