Wang Jianmin (; November 1942 – 28 September 2021) was a full general ('' shangjiang'') of the

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It consists of four Military branch, services—People's Liberation Army Ground Force, Ground Force, People's ...

(PLA) of China. He joined the PLA in June 1962, and the

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in September 1963.

Career

Wang was born in Luannan County,

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

, in November 1942. * 1973, Operations office director and assistant section chief, operations section, operations department,

Shenyang Military Region The Shenyang Military Region was one of seven military regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. It has command and control of military and armed police forces in the three northeast provinces of Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning, whic ...

. * 1983, Assistant Department Chief, Operations Department. * 1985, Division Commander. * 1987, Department Chief, Operations Department,

Command. * 1989, Studied at the PLA National Defense University. * 1993, Deputy Commander, 23rd Group Army. * 1995, Commander, 23rd Group Army. Commander, 39th Group Army. * 1997, Candidate member, 15th

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. * 1999, Chief of Staff,

. * 2000, Deputy Commander,

. * 2002, Commander, Chengdu Military Region. He was a member of the

16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was in session from 2002 to 2007. It held seven plenary sessions. It was set in motion by the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. The 15th Central Committee preceded it. ...

. He attained the rank of major general in July 1994, lieutenant general in 2000, and full general on June 24, 2006. On 28 September 2021, he died from an illness in

Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...

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 ...

, aged 78.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Jianmin 1942 births 2021 deaths People from Tangshan People's Liberation Army generals from Hebei Members of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party PLA National Defence University alumni Commanders of the Chengdu Military Region