Yang Zhicheng (PLA general)

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Yang Zhicheng
杨至成
Yang in 1955
Vice President of the PLA Higher Military Academy
In office
September 1962 – February 1967
PresidentChen Bojun
Li Jukui
Vice President of the PLA Academy of Military Sciences
In office
May 1958 – September 1963
PresidentYe Jianying
Personal details
Born
Yang Xuqing

(1903-11-30)30 November 1903
Sansui County, Guizhou, Qing China
Died3 February 1967(1967-02-03) (aged 63)
Beijing, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materRepublic of China Military Academy
Military service
Allegiance People's Republic of China
Branch/service
Years of service1926–1967
Rank General
Battles/warsSecond Sino-Japanese War
Chinese Civil War
Awards
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese杨至成
Traditional Chinese楊至成
Yang Xuqing
Simplified Chinese杨序清
Traditional Chinese楊序清

Yang Zhicheng (Chinese: 杨至成; 30 November 1903 – 3 February 1967) was a general in the People's Liberation Army of China. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 3rd National People's Congress.

Biography[edit]

Early life and education[edit]

Yang was born Yang Xuqing (杨序清) into a Kam people family in Sansui County, Guizhou, on 30 November 1930. In 1919 he attended Guizhou A-type Agricultural School, and participated in the parade of Guizhou students in support of the May Fourth Movement. He joined the Yunnan-Guizhou United Army after graduation. In March 1926, he was admitted to the Republic of China Military Academy and joined the Communist Youth League of China under the introduction of Zhou Yiqun, and became a member of the Chinese Communist Party in March the next year.[1] Soon after he took part in the Nanchang Uprising. His right leg was wounded during the South Hunan Uprising [zh]. In April of the same year, he went to Jinggang Mountains with Zhu De and Chen Yi and served as company commander of the 28th Regiment of the 4th Army of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army. He was seriously injured during the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign. He took part in the Long March in October 1934.

Second Sino-Japanese War[edit]

In June 1937, Yang served as a commander, and later became head of the School Affairs Department of the Counter-Japanese Military and Political University. In 1938, he went to the Soviet Union to cure diseases. Afterwards, he studied in the Party School of the Far East Bureau of the Soviet Communist Party and the Frunze Military Academy.[2]

Chinese Civil War[edit]

In January 1946, he returned to China with Li Lisan. In February 1946, he served as political commissar of the General Logistics Department of the Northeast Democratic United Army, organizing the logistics supply for the Siping campaign. In May 1948, he served as head of the newly established Quartermaster Production Department of the Northeast Military Region, responsible for the material support of the Liaoshen campaign and the Pingjin campaign.[3] He was head of the Quartermaster Production Department of the Fourth Field Army and Central China Military Region in May 1949, in addition to serving as head of Light Industry of the Central South Military Commission.

PRC era[edit]

In August 1950, the Quartermaster Production Department of the Central South Military Region was merged into its Logistics Department, and Yang became head of the Logistics Department of the Central South Military Region. In September 1954, he was appointed as deputy head of the Supervision Department of the Armed Forces of the People's Liberation Army. He was awarded the military rank of general (shangjiang) by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1955. He was made vice president of the PLA Academy of Military Sciences in May 1958.[4] He took up the post of vice president of the PLA Higher Military Academy which he held from September 1962 to February 1967, although he remained vice president of the PLA Academy of Military Sciences until September 1963.

On 3 February 1967, he died from an illness in Beijing, at the age of 63.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Wang Yongjun (王永均) (1989). 黄埔军校三百名将传 [Biography of 300 Generals of the Republic of China Military Academy] (in Chinese). Nanning, Guangxi: Guangxi People's Publishing House. p. 209. ISBN 7-219-01084-2.
  2. ^ 英雄不問出身：揭秘共和國開國將帥學歷. people.com.cn (in Chinese). 2015-02-27. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  3. ^ 杨至成：井冈山三炮退敌 毛泽东赞“红军大管家”. Guizhou Daily (in Chinese). 2013-12-04. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  4. ^ Editorial Department, ed. (2007). 中国人民解放军将帅名录 [List of People's Liberation Army Generals] (in Chinese). Vol. 1. Beijing: PLA Publishing House. p. 89. ISBN 978-7-5065-5031-4.
  5. ^ 杨至成. people.com.cn (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2020-07-15. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
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