The day before yesterday, the new commander of the Army Liu Zhenli was promoted to the rank of general, and the former commander General Han Weiguo, who was 65 years old, retired at the age of 65.
General Liu Zhenli, born in the 1960s, is a legendary senior general of the new era and one of the few active generals with actual combat experience.
The first-class hero in Vietnam's self-defense counterattack
Liu Zhenli was born in August 1964 and is a native of Luancheng, Hebei Province. In September 1983, 19-year-old Liu Zhenli was admitted to the military academy and underwent three years of rigorous scientific training. After graduation, he was assigned to the 27th Army of the Beijing Military Region. From the lowest level as platoon leader, he was soon promoted to deputy company commander and company commander. From 1986 to 1987, the 27th Army of the was ordered to conduct rounds of battle in southern Xinjiang of the motherland. During the one-year battle, the 27th Group Army smashed 614 sneak attacks by the Vietnamese army, withstood more than 60,000 artillery bombardments, organized 8 artillery operations and 34 reconnaissance operations, killing 1,580 enemies and injuring them in total. 1,800 men, captured 1 enemy, destroyed 35 enemy vehicles, 103 artillery pieces, and 808 fortifications. The troops belonging to the 27th Group Army only lost more than 300 people (non-sacrifice, including non-combat attrition). Among this team is Liu Zhenli. At that time, Liu Zhenli, a young company commander who was only 22 years old and had only been in the army for three years, was ordered to lead his troops to participate in the Laoshan Battle in southern Xinjiang. The company he led stood at the forefront of the enemy for more than a year, repelling enemy attacks a total of 36 times, winning the final victory at the minimum cost, and was awarded first-class military merit after the war. After that, he performed second-class merit once and third-class merit three times.
Someone who had a similar experience to him is Lieutenant General Wang Haijiang, the current commander of the Xinjiang Military Region. Wang Haijiang is one of the first batch of students to take the college entrance examination from the local area and enter the military academy. Shortly after graduation, he participated in the border self-defense counterattack and served as the commander of the main attack company, the 9th company of a unit of the Army's 21st Group Army. During this period, he led officers and soldiers to conduct reconnaissance near forward positions many times, and was awarded first-class merit for bravery in combat.
Military career is leading step by step
Liu Zhenli, commander of our army's first mechanized infantry division, is in the exercise
Later, Liu Zhenli successively served as deputy battalion staff officer, battalion commander, deputy division chief, division chief, brigade chief of staff, artilleryman of the group army headquarters Director of the headquarters and commander of the first mechanized infantry division of our army. In December 2009, he was promoted to Chief of Staff of the Army's 65th Group Army at the age of 45.
Since then, Liu Zhenli’s military career has been legendary, and he has repeatedly broken the record of being the youngest person in the army. He is the youngest army commander. When he was appointed commander of the Army's 65th Group Army in 2012, he was only 48 years old. More than a year later, in early 2014, he was transferred to the commander of the 38th Group Army, known as the "Long Live Army". The 38th Group Army is known as the "Ace Army among Ace Armies." Because of his outstanding performance in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, he was praised as the "Long Live Army" by Marshal Peng Dehuai, then commander and political commissar of the Volunteer Army, and he became famous all over the world.
Liu Zhenli is still the youngest deputy general of the military region. In June 2015, he was promoted to chief of staff of the Armed Police Force and entered the ranks of deputy military region generals. He was only 51 years old at the time. Six months later, the Army leadership organization was formally established, and he was appointed Army Chief of Staff.
In July 2016, Liu Zhenli broke another military record. In that month, at the age of 52, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, breaking the record of the youngest active lieutenant general.
In July 2021, Liu Zhenli broke his fourth military service record. In that month, at the age of 57, he was promoted to the rank of general, breaking the record of the youngest active general. The previous record was Colonel Guo Pu, political commissar of the Logistics Support Department of the Central Military Commission, who was promoted to general of the Air Force in December last year. He was born in January 1964.
An outstanding soldier who has withstood many major tests
In addition to withstanding the severe test of actual combat, he also has rich experience in organizing and commanding multinational joint military exercises. In 2010, at the "Peace Mission-2010" joint anti-terrorism military exercise held by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Liu Zhenli, then the chief of staff of the group army, was appointed as the deputy commander and chief of staff of the Chinese army battle group, leading our participating officers and soldiers to gallop in A military training ground in Kazakhstan’s territory. During the military exercise, our army won praise from its foreign counterparts participating in the exercise with its highly professional actions.In August 2014, in the "Peace Mission-2014" joint anti-terrorism military exercise held by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, he served as the Chinese cluster commander and the commander of the five-party joint command post of actual troops. When talking about the characteristics of this military exercise, Liu Zhenli said that he insisted on treating the joint exercise stage as an actual combat platform, making full use of the simulation environment of the joint operations test site at the training base, using live ammunition for all weapons in mountain operations, and conducting red and blue confrontations throughout the urban anti-terrorism process. , the difficulty, intensity, and reality of the drill were significantly enhanced, creating environmental conditions that approximated actual combat.
In addition, he was also the commander-in-chief of the Armed Police Force Advanced Command Post for the rescue operation of the "8·12" major explosion accident in Tianjin Port that shocked the whole country. The day after the incident, Liu Zhen immediately led armed police officers and soldiers to the scene to participate in handling the situation. After arriving at the scene of the accident, Liu Zhenli immediately understood the accident situation and made overall arrangements for the deployment of the rescue mission. During the rescue operation of the "8 12" explosion accident in Tianjin Port, the armed police force was responsible for many arduous tasks such as rescuing the injured, evacuating and moving the masses, searching for the remains of the victims, opening rescue channels, and detecting hazardous materials.
"Scholar-type" general
Liu Zhenli is a "scholar-type" general. In addition to being trained at the military academy at the beginning of his military career, he also graduated from the young and middle-aged leadership training class of the National Defense University, known as the "cradle of generals". He has Postgraduate qualifications and a master's degree in military science. In addition, he is also a member of the 19th Central Committee and one of the few deputy military region (theater) Central Committee members.
With such excellent generals guarding our happy life, what else do we have to fear? But what is certain is that there are still people (powers) who can’t sleep. Who do you think they are?
