Xu Yaoyuan

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

Xu Yaoyuan (Chinese: 许耀元; born December 1952) is a general of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China. He is Political Commissar of the PLA Academy of Military Science and a member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Xu was born in Wujiang, Jiangsu province. He enlisted in the PLA in 1969, and served in the 23rd Army. In 1997 he entered the PLA General Political Department (GPD); in 2004 he was put in charge of the cadres department of the GPD. In 2007 he became assistant to the director of the Department. In 2010 he attained the rank of lieutenant general, and became Political Commissar of the People's Armed Police. In July 2012 he was promoted to full general.^[1] In December 2014, Xu replaced General Sun Sijing as Political Commissar of the PLA Academy of Military Science.^[2]

References

↑ "中央军委举行晋升上将军衔警衔仪式". 中华人民共和国国防部. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
↑ "解放军高层调动大幕拉开五正大军区级将领履新". 大公报. Retrieved 2014-12-25.

Generals (shang jiang) of the People's Republic of China in active service

Army	Fan Changlong Chang Wanquan Fang Fenghui Zhang Yang Zhao Keshi Zhang Youxia Wei Fenghe Wang Hongyao Qi Jianguo Wang Jianping Wang Guanzhong Du Jincai Jia Ting'an Wu Changde Yin Fanglong Zhang Shibo Xu Yaoyuan Wang Jiaocheng Chu Yimin Song Puxuan Liu Fulian Liu Yuejun Zhao Zongqi Du Hengyan Cai Yingting Zheng Weiping Xu Fenlin Wei Liang Li Zuocheng

Navy*	Wu Shengli Sun Jianguo Miao Hua

Air Force	Xu Qiliang Ma Xiaotian Liu Yazhou

Armed Police	Wang Ning Sun Sijing

Although navy shang jiang* is officially translated as "admiral", there is no distinction between "general" and "admiral" in Chinese.

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