Commander of the Wuhan Military Region at the time of the Wuhan incident of 1967
He joined the Communist Party in 1928 and fought in the Red 11th and 4th Armies against the encirclements of the Eyuwan Soviet. In the war against Japan he was deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army’s 386th Brigade; after 1949 he commanded the Wuhan Military Region from 1954 to 1967 and became a colonel general in 1955. In 1967 he suppressed the rebel Workers’ Headquarters and backed the conservative Million Heroes, and after part of his forces and the Million Heroes seized the central envoys Xie Fuzhi and Wang Li and beat Wang on 20 July, the Wuhan incident, he was dismissed. Rehabilitated in 1972, he entered the Central Committee in 1978, and in spring 1989 signed the retired generals’ letter saying the army must not fire on the people.
Activities and affiliations
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1928–1949
Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949)Deputy commander, 386th Brigade, Eighth Route Army
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1928–1993
Military command
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1954–1967
People’s Republic of China state institutionsCommander, Wuhan Military RegionMain
Military command
Career Timeline
- 1928Joined the Communist Party and the Red 11th Army
- 1937Deputy commander, 386th Brigade, Eighth Route Army
- 1954–1967Commander, Wuhan Military Region
- 1955Rank of colonel general
- 1967Dismissed after the Wuhan incident
- 1972Rehabilitated
- 1978Member of the Central Committee
- 1989Retired generals’ letter against martial law
Related historical events
- 1966–1976The Cultural RevolutionWuhan Military Region commander in the Wuhan incidentHe backed the conservative Million Heroes and was dismissed after the detention of the central envoys in July 1967.
- 1989The Tiananmen protests and the crackdown of 4 June 1989Retired general opposing military deploymentJoined other retired generals in opposing military suppression of the protests in May 1989.