Xu Liangcai (; born August 1968) is a Chinese military officer serving as the 7th commander of the

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Biography

Xu was born in August 1968 in

Tongshan County Tongshan () is a county of Xianning City, in the southeastern part of Hubei province, People's Republic of China, bordering Jiangxi to the south. The county is located along Hubei's Mufu Mountains, mountainous south-eastern border with Jiangxi. ...

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. He enlisted in the army in September 1986 and joined the

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in June 1989. He served in various posts in the

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, including director of Joint Operation Department. On January 1, 2019,

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, chairman of the

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, appointed him as commander of the People's Liberation Army in Macau, replacing Liao Zhengrong (). As of April 2023, he was replaced by major general Yu Changjiang ().

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