Zhang Aiping ( Chinese ex. 张爱萍 , pinyin : Zhāng Àipíng , 1910-2003) - military and statesman of China, Minister of Defense of the PRC in 1983 - 1988. Member of the CPC Central Committee of 11-12 convocations (candidate of the 8 convocation), since 1985 member The CPC Central Committee Advisory Committee . Member of the Postcommittee of the NPC of the 9th convocation (MP from the PLA ). Member of CVS (1983-87).
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| Head of the government | Zhao Ziyang | ||||||
| Predecessor | Geng Biao | ||||||
| Successor | Qin Jiwei | ||||||
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| The consignment | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
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| Years of service | 1928-1988 | ||||||
| Affiliation |  China | ||||||
| Rank |  Colonel General (1955) | ||||||
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Biography
Zhang joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1928. In 1927-1929 he served in the 5th Army of Peng Dehuai in Prov. Hunan, then in the 14th Red Army in Prov. Jiangsu. He participated in the great campaign of 1934, served as a field commander in the Chinese Red Army , fought with units of the Kuomintang, and during the second Sino-Japanese war , with Japanese interventionists. During World War II, he commanded a partisan group aimed at rescuing American pilots, led by Lt. Col. D. Doolittle, who made an emergency landing in China after the bombing of Tokyo in April 1942 .
After the creation of the PRC in 1949, Zhang Aiping was one of the founders of the PLA . He commanded the first units of the naval forces of the PRC, as well as a number of ground units in the Korean War . In 1954-1967, the deputy chief of the General Staff of the PLA . Colonel General (09/27/1955), approved with the introduction of military ranks in the PLA [3] .
During the Cultural Revolution , Zhang Aiping was charged with counter-revolutionary crimes and removed from all posts. He was crippled by the hunweibins (leg fracture), in connection with which he remarked at the time: "The only thing that the cultural revolution gave me was a cane."
In 1973 he was rehabilitated and returned to military service, after the death of Mao Zedong, he served as Minister of Defense from 1983 to 1988, and also served as Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the PLA (1977-1982, second time), Deputy Prime Minister of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (1980 -82), a member of the State Council of the PRC (1982-1988) and chairman of the commission on the modernization of the PLA.
During the events on Tiananmen Square in 1989 , Zhang Aiping along with a group of PLA veterans signed a letter against the introduction of martial law in Beijing:
In these extraordinary circumstances, we, like old soldiers, appeal: since the People’s Liberation Army belongs to the people, it cannot resist the people, let alone kill people; bloodshed must not be allowed to prevent the escalation of the situation; the army should not enter the city.
- Ye Fei, Zhang Aiping, Xiao Ke, Yang Dezhi, Chen Zaidao, Song Shilun and Li Jiukui, a letter to the Central Military Council of China and the leadership of the headquarters for martial law in Beijing on May 21, 1989.
He died in Beijing on July 5, 2003 [4] .
Wife Lee . His grandson Nicholas Zhang is married to the daughter of Wang Yang [5] [6] .
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1018481273 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ General-Zhang Aiping (unreachable link) . Date of treatment January 25, 2014. Archived February 2, 2014.
- ↑ Death of former Defense Minister of China Zhang Aiping, People's Daily
- ↑ The Radical Market Market Vice Premier Wang Yang | South China - A Special Look
- ↑ Wang Xisha, daughter of Chinese vice premier Wang Yang ｜ WCT Archived July 21, 2015.
Links
- Colin Mackerras. The Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China