Kong Jun (; born July 1964) is a

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('' zhongjiang'') of the

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(PLA) serving as commander of the Eastern Theater Command Ground Force, succeeding

Lin Xiangyang Lin Xiangyang (; born October 1964) is a general (''Jiang (rank), shangjiang'') of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) who is the current commander of Eastern Theater Command, in office since January 2022. Biography Born in the town of Haikou, Fuji ...

in December 2021. Previously he served as commander of the

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. He is a delegate to the

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Biography

Kong was born in Hanjiang County (now Hanjiang District,

Yangzhou Yangzhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, East China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou, Jiangsu, ...

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, in July 1964. He served in the

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for a long time. In January 2016, he became chief of staff of the

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, replacing Zheng Min (). In April 2017, he was appointed commander of the newly founded

, he remained in that position until December 2021, when he was commissioned as commander of the Eastern Theater Command Ground Force.

References

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