Li Laizhu
Li Laizhu | |||||||
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李来柱 | |||||||
Commander of the Beijing Military Region | |||||||
In office December 1993 – November 1997 | |||||||
Preceded by | Wang Chengbin | ||||||
Succeeded by | Li Xinliang | ||||||
Personal details | |||||||
Born | Shen County, Shandong, China | 10 October 1932||||||
Died | 12 March 2023 Beijing, China | (aged 90)||||||
Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
Alma mater | PLA Military and Political University Shijiazhuang Second Senior Infantry School | ||||||
Military service | |||||||
Allegiance | People's Republic of China | ||||||
Branch/service | People's Liberation Army Ground Force | ||||||
Years of service | 1944–1997 | ||||||
Rank | General | ||||||
Battles/wars | Second Sino-Japanese War Chinese Civil War Sino-Vietnamese War | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 李来柱 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 李來柱 | ||||||
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Li Laizhu (Chinese: 李来柱; 10 October 1932 – 12 March 2023) was a general (shangjiang) of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). He was a member of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[1] He was a delegate to the 7th National People's Congress and a member of the Standing Committee of the 9th National People's Congress.[2]
Biography
[edit]Li was born in Shen County, Shandong, on 10 October 1932. He enlisted in the Eighth Route Army in May 1944, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June 1948. During the Chinese Civil War, he engaged in the Liaobo campaign, Pinghan campaign, Huaihai campaign, Yangtze River Crossing campaign, Shanghai Campaign, and Chengdu campaign. In 1961, he graduated from the Shijiazhuang Second Senior Infantry School. In December 1993, he was promoted to become commander of the Beijing Military Region, a position he held until November 1997.
Li was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in September 1988 and general (shangjiang) in May 1994.
Li died on 12 March 2023 in Beijing, at the age of 90.[3]
Publications
[edit]- 李来柱上将回忆录 [Memoirs of General Li Laizhu] (in Chinese). Beijing: Central Literature Publishing House. 2008. ISBN 9787507325690.
- 李来柱诗记 [Poems of Li Laizhu] (in Chinese). Beijing: China Youth Publishing House. 2018. ISBN 9787515351841.
References
[edit]- ^ 中国共产党历届中央委员大辞典 1921–2003 [Dictionary of All Previous Members of the Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party 1921–2003] (in Chinese). Beijing: CCP History Press. 2004. p. 1140. ISBN 7-80136-946-7.
- ^ Long De (龙德); Cai Xiang (蔡翔), eds. (2000). 中华人民共和国通鉴 [Yearbook of the People's Republic of China] (in Chinese). Shenyang, Liaoning: Liaoning People's Publishing House. p. 1832. ISBN 7-205-04473-1.
- ^ 原北京军区司令员李来柱上将逝世,享年92岁 (in Chinese)
- 1932 births
- 2023 deaths
- People's Liberation Army generals from Shandong
- Commanders of the Beijing Military Region
- People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong
- Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong
- Members of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- Delegates to the 7th National People's Congress
- Members of the Standing Committee of the 9th National People's Congress