Chang Dingqiu (; born January 1967) is a

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('' shangjiang'') of the

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...

(PLA) serving as Commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, succeeding

Ding Laihang Ding Laihang (; born September 1957) is a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) who served as Commander of People's Liberation Army Air Force from 2017 to 2021. Prior to that, he was commander of the Shenyang Militar ...

in September 2021. He is a member of the

20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was elected by the 20th National Congress in October 2022, and will sit until the next National Congress is convened in 2027. It formally succeeded the 19th Central Committee. The c ...

and was an alternate member of the

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Biography

Chang was born in

Hengyang County Hengyang County () is a counties of China, county and the List of County-level divisions of Hunan by population, 5th most populous county-level division in the Provinces of China, Province of Hunan, China; it is under the administration of Hengyan ...

Hengyang Hengyang (; ) is the second largest city of Hunan Province, China. It straddles the Xiang River about south of the provincial capital of Changsha. As of the 2020 Chinese census, Its total population was 6,645,243 inhabitants, whom 1,290,715 l ...

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...

province in 1967. He enlisted in the

People's Liberation Army Air Force The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF; ), also known as the Chinese Air Force (中国空军) or the People's Air Force (人民空军), is an aerial service branch of the People's Liberation Army, the regular armed forces of the Peo ...

in 1984. He served as assistant chief of staff of the People's Liberation Army Air Force in 2011 before being appointed chief of staff of Shenyang Military Region Air Force. In January 2016, he was promoted to become deputy commander of the newly founded

Southern Theater Command The Southern Theater Command () is one of the five theater commands of the People's Liberation Army, founded on 1 February 2016. Its predecessor was the Guangzhou Military Region. Its jurisdiction includes Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan, Ha ...

, and served until December 2017, when he was appointed deputy chief of staff of the

Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission The Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission (JSDCMC) () is the command organ and the headquarters for the People's Liberation Army (PLA), superseding the former PLA General Staff Department (GSD). It was established on 11 Ja ...

. In August 2021, he rose to become commander of

, succeeding

. He was promoted to the rank of

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('' shaojiang'') in July 2012,

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('' zhongjiang'') in July 2018 and

('' shangjiang'') in September 2021.

References

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