Ye Wanyong | |
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| Native name | 叶万勇 |
| Born | September 1953 (age 71) Wuhan,Hubei, China |
| Allegiance |  People's Republic of China |
| Service |  People's Liberation Army |
| Years of service | 1966–2013 |
| Rank |  Major general |
| Commands | Political Commissar ofSichuan Military District (2006–2013) |
| Ye Wanyong | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 葉萬勇 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 叶万勇 | ||||||
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Ye Wanyong (born September 1953) is a disgraced former major general (shao jiang) in thePeople's Liberation Army ofChina. He served as Deputy Political Commissar of Tibet Military District from December 2005 to October 2006, and Political Commissar ofSichuan Military District between October 2006 to 2007.
Ye attained the rank of major general in July 2001. He spent more than 37 years inTibet Autonomous Region before being transferred to Sichuan in 2006. He retired in November 2013, and was investigated for "violating discipline" in 2014.[1]
Ye was born and raised inWuhan, capital ofHubei province.[2] He graduated fromSichuan University, majoring in management science and engineering. He began his political career in February 1969, and joined theChinese Communist Party in October 1971.[2]
WhenMao Zedong launched theCultural Revolution was in 1966, Ye joined thePeople's Liberation Army as a soldier.[2] Three years later, he worked in the Tibet Military District. He became the Director of the Political Department ofTibet Military District in July 1996, and was promoted to Deputy Political Commissar in December 2005.[2] In October 2006 he was promoted again to become the Political Commissar ofSichuan Military District.[2] He concurrently served as a member of the Standing Committee of theSichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in July 2007, the province's highest ruling council.[2][3]
Ye retired on November 18, 2013, and was highly praised byZhu Fuxi, the Political Commissar of theChengdu Military Region.
On June 25, 2014, he was stripped of his membership of China's political advisory body, theChinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[4] It was later revealed that Ye had been investigated by theCommission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Military Commission beginning in May 2014, and that his case had been moved to military prosecution organs for further processing.[5] Some sources have reported that Ye may have been implicated in the wider investigation on former Sichuan party chiefZhou Yongkang.[6]
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| Preceded by ? | Political Commissar ofSichuan Military District 2006–2013 | Succeeded by Liu Jiaguo [zh] |