Guo Boxiong

Guo Boxiong (Chinese郭伯雄, Pinyin Guo Boxiong; * July 1942 Liquan, Shaanxi Province) is a Chinese communist politician, general and member of the Political offices 2002 to 2012.

Ascent to the General of the People's Liberation Army

After three years working as a factory worker in Xingping, Shaanxi Province, he joined in August 1961 as a soldier in the People's Liberation Army (PLA ) a. In the following four years, he rose from the Deputy group leader and group leader for the platoon commander of a company of the 164th Regiment of the 55th Division. Subsequently, he was one year member of the staff of the propaganda group of the Political Department, and then four years of the Staff of the combat training group this regiment. From 1970 to 1971 he was chief of combat training group of the 164th Regiment.

From 1971 to 1981, he rose from the Staff Officer and Deputy Head Head of the Department of combat training in the 19th Army headquarters on, which included the 164th Regiment. In 1981 he became first Chief of Staff of the 55th Division before he Deputy Director of the Department of the battle of Lanzhou Military Region in 1982. Between September 1981 and July 1983, he graduated next to a study at the Military Academy of the PLA.

Subsequently, he became in 1983 Chief of Staff of the 19th Army. From 1985 to 1990, Guo was then Deputy Chief of Staff of the Military Region of Lanzhou. Thereafter, he was appointed commander of the 47th Army Group. He became deputy commander of Military Region of Beijing and, subsequently, in 1997 commander of the Lanzhou Military Region of 1993.

Ascent to the member of the Politburo and Deputy Chairman of the ZMK

Guo (ZK ) elected at the 15th Congress of the CPC in 1997 as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Since 1999 he is a member of the Central Military Commission ( ZMK). He was also from 1999 to 2002 Deputy Chief of Staff and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the General Staff of the PLA.

Since 2002, General Guo is Deputy Chief of the Headquarters of the PLA and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Headquarters of the PLA.

At the 16th Congress of the CPC in 2002 he was elected a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee and was next to Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan for extended leadership circle of the party leadership. In March 2003, he became one of the Deputy Chairmen of the ZMK making it the second highest military leader after Hu Jintao. In this role, he was commissioned in June 2006 with the investigation of a plane crash in which several researchers and Army soldiers lost their lives.

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