Gao Tianzheng (; January 1931 – 26 January 2022) was a

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in the

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of China who served as director of Political Department of the

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from 1988 to 1990. He was a delegate to the

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. He was a member of the 9th National Committee of the

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. He was a member of the

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Biography

Gao was born in

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Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

(now Tongzhou District of

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), in January 1931. He enlisted in the

(PLA) in 1948, and joined the

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(CCP) the following year. He was present at the Pingjin campaign and the Yangtze River Crossing campaign during the

Chinese Civil War The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led Nationalist government, government of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Armed conflict continued intermitt ...

. After the establishment of the Communist State, in 1950, he took part in the

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. He was appointed director of Political Department of the

in February 1988, and served until May 1990, when he was made deputy political commissar. He retired in July 2003. He was promoted to the rank of major general ('' shaojiang'') in 1988 and

('' zhongjiang'') in 1990. On 26 January 2022, he died of an illness in

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Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

, at the age of 90.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gao, Tianzheng 1931 births 2022 deaths People's Liberation Army generals from Beijing People's Republic of China politicians from Beijing Chinese Communist Party politicians from Beijing Delegates to the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 7th National People's Congress Members of the 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference