Li Shiming (; born December 1948) is a retired general (''

shang jiang Jiang (Wade-Giles, formerly romanized chiang and usually translated general (rank), general) is a general officer rank used by China and Taiwan. It is also used as jang in North Korea, North and South Korea, shō in Japan, and tướng in Vietna ...

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(PLA) of China. He served as commander of the Chengdu Military Region.

Biography

Born in Santai County,

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

Province, he joined the PLA in April 1968, and the

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in December of the same year. In December 2006, he was appointed vice commander of the PLA Chengdu Military Region. In September 2007, he was promoted to commander of the Chengdu Military Region. He retired in 2013 and Li Zuocheng succeeded him as commander of the Chengdu MR. He attained the rank of lieutenant general in 2005, promoted to general in 2011, and was a full member of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (2007−12).

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