Rao Kaixun (; born April 1964) is a

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in the

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. In July 2019 he has been placed under investigation by the PLA's anti-corruption agency. Previously he served as deputy commander of the

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. He was promoted to the rank of major general ( shao jiang) in 2010 and

(

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) in 2017.

Education

Rao was born in Yuexi 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 ...

, in April 1964. He is of Hui ethnicity. He graduated from

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Career

He enlisted in the

in 1980. In 2010 he was promoted to become

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of the

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, after 30 years of grass-roots unit training. Two years later, he was appointed army commander of the 14th Group Army. In 2013, he was named head of the Operational Division of

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, replacing Bai Jianjun. That same year, he became head of Civil Defense Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense Mobilization of the

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. In March 2016 he was appointed deputy commander of the

. He concurrently served as its chief of staff in August 2017. He was a delegate to the

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and

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Investigation

In July 2019 he was placed under investigation by the PLA's anti-corruption agency. Rao was ordered to resign as representative of the 13th National People's Congress. He was downgraded to deputy corps leader grade position.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rao, Kaixun 1964 births People from Yuexi County, Sichuan Living people PLA National Defence University alumni Hui people Delegates to the 12th National People's Congress Delegates to the 13th National People's Congress People's Liberation Army generals from Sichuan