Zhang Shibo (; born February 1952) is a retired general of the Chinese

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of China. He served as commander of the

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, commander of the

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, and president of the

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Biography

Zhang Shibo was born in February 1952 in

Zhuji Zhuji () is a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Shaoxing, in north-central Zhejiang province, China, located about south of Hangzhou. It has with a population of 1,218,072 inhabitants at the 2020 census e ...

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Province. He joined the PLA in 1970, serving as an ordinary soldier in the

Jinan Military Region The Jinan Military Region was a PLA Military Region located in the east of the People's Republic of China, covering the Shandong and Henan Provinces, which also formed military districts. It appears that Yang Dezhi was one of the first comman ...

. He later rose to deputy commander of the 54th Group Army, deputy chief of staff of the Jinan MR, and commander of the 20th Group Army. He graduated from

Shandong University Shandong University (; SDU) is a public university in Jinan, Shandong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Clas ...

with a degree in

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. In 2008, he replaced Lieutenant General

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as commander of the

. He attained the rank of lieutenant general (''

zhong jiang Jiang ( formerly romanized chiang and usually translated general) is a general officer rank used by China and Taiwan. It is also used as jang in North and South Korea, shō in Japan, and tướng in Vietnam. Chinese People's Liberation Army T ...

'') in July 2009. In October 2012, Zhang Shibo was promoted to commander of the

. In December 2014, Lieutenant General

Song Puxuan Song Puxuan (; born March 1954) is a retired general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). He served as director of the Logistic Support Department of the Central Military Commission from 2017 to 2019. Prior to that, he served as command ...

replaced him as commander of the Beijing MR, and Zhang took over Song's old position as president of the

. On 31 July 2015, Zhang Shibo was promoted to 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 ...

''), the highest rank for Chinese military officers in active service. In 2017, Zhang Shibo authored a book that spoke of the potential for biological warfare to include " specific ethnic genetic attacks." Zhang was an alternate of the

17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was elected by the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, 17th Congress on 21 October 2007, and sat until the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, 18th Nat ...

(2007–12), and a full member of the 18th Central Committee (2012–17).

References

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