Wang Jianmin (full general)

Not to be confused with Wang Jianmin (lieutenant general).

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.

Wang Jianmin (born November 1942 in Luannan, Hebei) is a retired full general (shang jiang) of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China. He joined the PLA in June 1962, and the Communist Party of China in September 1963.

Career

1973, Operations office director and assistant section chief, operations section, operations department, Shenyang Military Region.
1983, Assistant Department Chief, Operations Department.
1985, Division Commander.
1987, Department Chief, Operations Department, Shenyang Military Region Command.
1989, Studied at the PLA National Defense University.
1993, Deputy Commander, 23rd Group Army.
1995, Commander, 23rd Group Army. Commander, 39th Group Army.
1997, Candidate member, 15th National People's Congress.
1999, Chief of Staff, Shenyang Military Region.
2000, Deputy Commander, Shenyang Military Region.
2002, Commander, Chengdu Military Region.^[1]

He was a member of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

He attained the rank of major general in July 1994, lieutenant general in 2000, and full general on June 24, 2006.

References

↑ "Over half of Chinese party Central Committee to be replaced - HK daily". BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific. 15 October 2007. The military will also see quite a big change in its membership on the Central Committee. Giving up Central Committee membership will be Shi Yunsheng, former Commander of the Navy; Wang Jianmin, former Commander of Chengdu Military Region...

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, March 06, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.