Ge Zhenfeng (; born October 1944) is a retired general of China's

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Biography

Born in Qingyuan County (now Qingyuan District,

Baoding Baoding is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing. As of the 2020 census, Baoding City had 11,544,036 inhabitants, of which 2,549,787 lived in the metropolitan area made of 4 out of 5 urban distri ...

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 ...

, Ge joined the PLA in June 1962 and the

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in July 1965. In 1984, he became the vice chief of staff of PLA army corps. In 1988, he was promoted to chief of staff of 39th army corps. He became the commander of 64th army corps in 1992. In November 1996, he was elevated to chief of staff of PLA

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. He became vice commander of Shenyang MR in January 1999. In December 2000, he was appointed as vice president of

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. In July 2001, he became the president of PLA Academy of Military Science. From November 2002 to December 2009, he has served as executive vice chief of staff in General Staff Department of PLA. He was made lieutenant general in 1998, and awarded the rank of general on 20 June 2004.

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