Li Lun ( zh, s=李伦; 30 October 1927 – 25 June 2019) was a

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of the Chinese

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(PLA) who served as President of the

PLA Logistics Academy 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 Xi ...

and deputy director of the PLA General Logistics Department. He was the son of General

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Biography

Li Lun was born as Li Runxiu ( zh, s=李润修, labels=no) on 30 October 1927 in

Wuhu Wuhu () is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Anhui province of China, province, China. Sitting on the southeast bank of the Yangtze River, Wuhu borders Xuancheng to the southeast, Chizhou and Tongling to the southwest, Hefei City to the n ...

Anhui Anhui is an inland Provinces of China, province located in East China. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze and Huai rivers, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the east, Jiang ...

, Republic of China. He was the youngest son of

, a Communist Party intelligence officer and general, and his wife Zhao Ying ( zh, s=赵瑛, labels=no). In 1939, Li Lun enlisted in the

Eighth Route Army The Eighth Route Army (), officially titled as the List of Army Groups of the National Revolutionary Army, 18th Group Army, was a Field army, group army nominally under the banner of the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Republic of Ch ...

at the age of 12 and served as a messenger. In March 1941, his parents brought him to

Yan'an Yan'an; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternatively spelled as Yenan is a prefecture-level city in the Shaanbei region of Shaanxi Province of China, province, China, bordering Shanxi to the east and Gansu to the west. It administers several c ...

, the Communist headquarters during the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part ...

, where he studied at the Yan'an Artillery School. 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 ...

, Li began to engage in combat and fought in many battles including the

Battle of Jinan The Battle of Jinan was a critical engagement fought between the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from September 16 to September 24, 1948, during the Chinese Civil War. The communist Eastern C ...

, the Huaihai Campaign and the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign. He was promoted to Commander of the First Battalion of the Artillery Regiment of the East China Field Army. In 1949, he was awarded the First Class Merit for his performance in the Battle of the

Zhoushan Archipelago Zhoushan is an urbanized archipelago with the administrative status of a prefecture-level city in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. It consists of an archipelago of islands at the southern mouth of Hangzhou Bay off the mainland c ...

. After the founding of the

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, Li worked in multiple positions in logistics. He was appointed President of the

in 1986 and later promoted to deputy director of the PLA General Logistics Department. He attained the rank of

in 1988. Li died on 25 June 2019 in Beijing, at the age of 91.

References

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