Fang Nanjiang (; April 1943 – 3 October 2018) was a major general of the Chinese

People's Armed Police ) , abbreviation = PAP ("People's Armed Police") CAPF ("Chinese Armed Police Force"), formerly abbreviated''Wujing'' ( zh , s = 武警 , p = Wǔjǐng , l = Armed Police , labels = no ), or WJ as on vehicle license plates , patch ...

(PAP) and a writer of military-themed novels. He served as Deputy Director of the Political Department of the PAP and Director of the Organization Department of the

Jinan Military Region The Jinan Military Region was a PLA Military Region located in the east of the People's Republic of China, covering the Shandong and Henan Provinces, which also formed military districts. It appears that Yang Dezhi was one of the first comman ...

. He co-authored ''The Last Salute'', which won a national award for short novels in 1980 and was adapted into a film and a TV series.

Biography

Fang was born in April 1943 in

Jianli County Jianli () is a county-level city of southern Hubei, Hubei Province, China, located on the northern (left) bank of the Yangtze River and bordering Hunan, Hunan Province to the south. It is under the administration of Jingzhou, Jingzhou City. Ety ...

Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...

, China, with his

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Pingjiang County Pingjiang County () is a county in the northeast of Hunan province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Yueyang. The county is located on the eastern margin of the province, the Miluo River runs ...

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. He enlisted in the

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It consists of four Military branch, services—People's Liberation Army Ground Force, Ground Force, People's ...

in 1963 and joined the

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in March 1965. He served in the 356th Regiment of the 76th Division of the 26th Group Army. He was later transferred to the headquarters of the

and served as its Director of Organization Department. After leaving the Jinan Military Region, Fang served as Political Commissar of the Shandong Provincial

, and later as Deputy Director of the Political Department of the PAP. He attained the rank of Major General in July 1996. Fang began publishing novels in the early 1980s and became a member of the

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in 2005. He co-authored with Li Quan () the novel ''The Last Salute'' (). It won the National Short Novel Prize in 1980 and was adapted into a film and a TV series. He also published the long novel ''The Guards of China'' (). Fang died on 3 October 2018 in Beijing, at the age of 75.

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