Zheng Weiping (; born July 1955) is a general ('' shangjiang'') of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China. He was Political Commissar of the Strategic Support Force between 2017 and 2020. He previously served as Political Commissar of the Nanjing Military Region (2012–2016) and Political Commissar of the

Eastern Theater Command The Eastern Theater Command () is one of the five theater commands of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), founded 1 February 2016. It replaced the Nanjing Military Region. The command is headquartered in Nanjing. Its jurisdiction includes Jia ...

(2016–2017).

Biography

Zheng was born in

Wanrong County Wanrong County () is a county under the administration of Yuncheng City, in the southwest of Shanxi Province, China, bordering Shaanxi province to the west. __NOTOC__ The county's Gushan was credited by the ''Records of Yicheng County'' compiled du ...

, Shanxi province. He served at one point as secretary to General

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. In 2003 he began a stint overseeing political education at the National Defence University. In 2005 he became political commissar of the 41st Group Army. In 2007, he became the head of the political department of the

Guangzhou Military Region The Guangzhou Military Region was from 1955 to 2016 one of the People's Liberation Army PLA Military Regions, located in the south of the People's Republic of China. In May 1949, the Central China (Hua Zhong) Military Region (MR) was formed. In Ma ...

. In October 2012 he was appointed political commissar of the Nanjing Military Region. On 31 July 2015, Zheng was promoted to general (''

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''), the highest rank for Chinese military officers in active service. In 2016 Zheng became the inaugural political commissar of the newly established

. In September 2017 he was appointed political commissar of the Strategic Support Force, replacing Genenral

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. He Ping succeeded Zheng as the Eastern TC commissar. On February 28, 2021, he was appointed vice-chairperson of the

National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee The National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee () is one of nine special committees of the National People's Congress, the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. The special committee was ...

. Zheng has been a member of the 18th and

19th 19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics 19 is the eighth prime number, and forms a sexy prime with 13, a twin prime with 17, and a cousin prime with 23. It is the third full re ...

Central Committees of the Communist Party of China.

References

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