Marshal who, as Lin Biao’s political commissar in the Northeast Field Army, led the Liaoshen and Pingjin campaigns
From Hengshan in Hunan, he joined the Communist Party at Wuchang in 1927, took part in the Autumn Harvest Uprising and did political work in the Fourth Red Army at Jinggangshan. In the war against Japan he led the Shandong base as political commissar of the 115th Division; in October 1945 he moved over 60,000 troops from Shandong to the northeast and became second political commissar of the Northeast People’s Autonomous Army. Operated on in the Soviet Union in 1946 for kidney cancer, he directed the Liaoshen campaign with Lin Biao as political commissar of the Northeast Field Army, and in January 1949 formed a General Front Committee with Lin and Nie Rongzhen that negotiated Fu Zuoyi’s peaceful surrender of Beiping. After 1949 he was Procurator-General of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and director of the PLA General Political Department, and became a marshal. He died in 1963.
Also known as: Lo Jung-huan · Luo Shenzhen
Activities and affiliations
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1927–1949
Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949)Political commissar, Northeast Field ArmyMain
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1927–1963
Military command
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1949–
People’s Republic of China state institutionsProcurator-General
Law and justice -
1950–1963
People’s Republic of China state institutionsDirector, PLA General Political Department; marshal
Military command
Career Timeline
- 1927Joined the Communist Party; Autumn Harvest Uprising
- 1930Political commissar, Fourth Red Army
- 1938Political commissar, 115th Division; moved into Shandong
- 1945Moved 60,000 troops from Shandong to the northeast; member of the 7th Central Committee
- 1948Directed the Liaoshen campaign
- 1949General Front Committee of the Pingjin campaign; negotiated the peaceful takeover of Beiping
- 1949Procurator-General of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate
- 1950Director, PLA General Political Department
Related historical events
- 1945–1949The Chinese Civil WarPolitical commissar of the Northeast Field ArmyWith Lin Biao he led the Liaoshen and Pingjin campaigns and negotiated the peaceful surrender of Beiping.
- 1949Establishment of the People’s Republic of ChinaProcurator-general of the Supreme People’s ProcuratorateHe was appointed at the first meeting of the Central People’s Government Council on 1 October.