Yang Huaiqing | |||||||
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杨怀庆 | |||||||
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| Political Commissar of the People's Liberation Army Navy | |||||||
| In office July 1995 – June 2003 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Zhou Kunren | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Hu Yanlin [zh] | ||||||
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| Born | February 1939 Shouguang County,Shandong, China | ||||||
| Died | 12 December 2012(2012-12-12) (aged 73) Beijing, China | ||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Alma mater | PLA National Defence University Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Military service | |||||||
| Allegiance |  People's Republic of China | ||||||
| Branch/service |  People's Liberation Army Navy | ||||||
| Years of service | 1958–2003 | ||||||
| Rank |  Admiral | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杨怀庆 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 楊懷慶 | ||||||
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Yang Huaiqing (Chinese:杨怀庆; February 1939 – 12 December 2012) was anadmiral in thePeople's Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) of China. He was a member of the15th and16th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party.[1] He was a delegate to the8th National People's Congress.[1]
Yang was born inShouguang County (now Shouguang),Shandong, in February 1939.[1] He enlisted in thePeople's Liberation Army (PLA) in January 1958, and joined theChinese Communist Party (CCP) in May 1960.[1] He was assigned to theEast Sea Fleet in August 1970.[1] He moved up the ranks to become deputy head of Cadre Division of the Political Department in September 1981 and head in June 1983.[1] He became director of the Political Department of theZhoushan Naval Base [zh] in August 1985, and two years later entered theCentral Party School of the Chinese Communist Party.[1] In January 1988, he became deputy political commissar of theZhoushan Naval Base [zh], rising to political commissar six months later.[1] He served as deputy director of the PLA Navy Political Department in June 1990, and two years later promoted to the director position.[1] He was promoted to deputy political commissar of thePLA Navy in December 1993.[1] In July 1995, he was promoted again to become political commissar.[1] He was removed from public office and forced into retirement alongsideShi Yunsheng in May 2003 due to themilitary disaster of Chinese submarine361.[2][3][4] He died of an illness inBeijing, at the age of 73.[5]
He attained the rank ofrear admiral (shaojiang) in July 1990,vice admiral (zhongjiang) in July 1994, andadmiral (shangjiang) in June 2000.[1]
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| Preceded by | Political Commissar of thePeople's Liberation Army Navy 1995–2003 | Succeeded by |