He Weirong (; born October 1949) is a retired lieutenant general (''

zhong jiang Jiang ( formerly romanized chiang and usually translated general) is a general officer rank used by China and Taiwan. It is also used as jang in North and South Korea, shō in Japan, and tướng in Vietnam. Chinese People's Liberation Army T ...

'') of the

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(PLAAF) of China. He served as

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and then Executive Deputy Commander of the PLAAF.

Biography

He Weirong was born in October 1949 in

Yichang Yichang ( zh, s= ), Postal Map Romanization, alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. Yichang had a population of 3.92 million people at the 2022 census, making it the third most pop ...

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 ...

Province. He joined the PLAAF in 1966 and studied at the Air Force aviation school. In 1999 he graduated from the

corps Corps (; plural ''corps'' ; from French , from the Latin "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization. A military innovation by Napoleon I, the formation was formally introduced March 1, 1800, when Napoleon ordered Gener ...

-level officer training program at

PLA National Defence University The National Defense University is a national public collegiate military university headquartered in Haidian, Beijing, China, with constituent and affiliated military academies nationwide. Established in 1985 by a military order of Deng X ...

. He commanded the Sixth Fighter Division and was deputy commander 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 ...

and commander of the Jinan MR Air Force (2003). He was appointed PLAAF chief of staff in 2003, before assuming his current position in 2005. As executive deputy commander of the PLAAF, He was responsible for operations and training. He attained the rank of major general in 1993, and lieutenant general in June 2004.

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