Ren Rong (; 10 September 1917 – 16 June 2017) was a Chinese general and politician.
A native of
Cangxi County
Cangxi County () is a county of northeastern Sichuan Province, China, located along the upper reaches of the Jialing River. It is under the administration of Guangyuan City. The population in 2020 was 512,617.
Cangxi produces red kiwifruit, a ...
, he joined the
Communist Youth League of China
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in 1933 and became a formal member of the
Chinese Communist Party
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the next year. Ren fought in the
Second Sino–Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific The ...
, the
Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and forces of the Chinese Communist Party, continuing intermittently since 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949 with a Communist victory on main ...
and the
Korean War
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. From 1971 to 1980, he was the Communist Party Chief of the
Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in Southwest China. It was overlayed on the traditional Tibetan regions of ...
. Ren died in
Wuhan
Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city a ...
, aged 99, in 2017.
References
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1917 births
2017 deaths
People's Liberation Army generals from Sichuan
Eighth Route Army personnel
Academic staff of the Counter-Japanese Military and Political University