Chi Haotian

Chi Haotian

Chi Haotian ( Chinese  遲浩田 , Pinyin Chí Hàotián ; born July 9, 1929 in Zhaoyuan , Yantai , Shandong ) is a former Chinese general of the People's Liberation Army and a politician of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who served as chief of the general staff between 1987 and 1992 so that was the military commander of the armed forces. He then held the post of Defense Minister of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003 .

Life

Chi Haotian was a graduate of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political College, joined the People's Liberation Army in 1945, and became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1946 . After graduating from the Military Academy in Nanjing and the Political Academy of the People's Liberation Army, he was a political officer in a company of the field army between 1946 and 1949 and took part in the fighting around Shanghai during the final phase of the Chinese Civil War. In 1951 he was a political officer of a battalion in the troop contingent of the People's Liberation Army in the Korean War and between 1955 and 1958 he was deputy head of the political department of Regiment 235 of the 27th Army. He was then a graduate of the Infantry College between 1958 and 1959 and of the Military Academy of the People's Liberation Army from 1959 to 1960. He then acted between 1960 and 1966 as a political officer in Regiment 235, which was now subordinate to the 79th Division of the 27th Army.

After that, Chi Haotian was temporarily deputy chief of the general staff between 1967 and 1969 and from 1967 to 1972 a member of the National People's Congress as a member of the delegation of the People's Liberation Army to represent the soldiers. In 1969 he took over the post as head of the political department of the 27th Army in the Beijing military region and in 1970 as a political officer of a regiment of the 81st division of this army. After that, from 1970 to 1987, he served both as editor-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army Daily Jiefangjun Bao and deputy editor-in-chief of Renmin Ribao , the party organ of the CCP. At the same time he acted from 1973 to 1977 as deputy political officer of the Beijing military region and in 1977 was one of the delegates of the XI. CCP Congress . On the XII. At the 1982 Congress, he became a member of the Central Committee (CCP Central Committee ) for the first time and was a member of this body for twenty years until 2002.

In 1987, General Chi Haotian took over from General Yang Dezhi as Chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army and was therefore the military commander of the armed forces until he was replaced by General Zhang Wannian in 1992. Then he became a member of the Central Military Commission of the Central Committee at the XIV Party Congress in 1992 and also a member of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China and also a member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China , the central people's government. On March 28, 1993, he succeeded General Qin Jiwei as Minister of Defense of the People's Republic of China and held this ministerial office for ten years until he was replaced by General Cao Gangchuan on March 17, 2003. At the same time he was vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Central Committee between 1995 and 2002 and also a member of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China from 1995 to 2003. Most recently Chi was on the XV. 1997 party congress also member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China , the central body of power in the People's Republic of China, which has all leadership powers between the plenary sessions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the actual decision-making power over the guidelines of politics. He was a member of this body until 2002. In this function he was part of the 1999 delegation for the handover of Macau to the People's Republic of China. He was also honorary president of the wrestling association.

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chi is the family name here, Haotian is the first name.