Wei Liang

Wei Liang (Chinese: 魏亮; pinyin: Wèi Liàng; born 1953) is a general (Shang Jiang) in the People's Liberation Army and the current Political Commissar of the Southern Theater Command. Originally from Gaochun County, Jiangsu, Wei served in the 26th Army, then the People's Armed Police, before joining the Guangzhou Military Region in a leadership position. He earned the rank of General in July 2014. Between 2012 and 2016, he was the Political Commissar of the Guangzhou Military Region. He is a member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.^[1]

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Generals (shang jiang) of the People's Republic of China in active service

Army	Fan Changlong Chang Wanquan Fang Fenghui Zhang Yang Zhao Keshi Zhang Youxia Wang Hongyao Qi Jianguo Wang Jianping Wang Guanzhong Du Jincai Jia Ting'an Wu Changde Yin Fanglong Zhang Shibo Xu Yaoyuan Wang Jiaocheng Chu Yimin Song Puxuan Liu Fulian Liu Yuejun Zhao Zongqi Du Hengyan Cai Yingting Zheng Weiping Xu Fenlin Wei Liang Li Zuocheng Zhu Fuxi

Navy*	Wu Shengli Sun Jianguo Miao Hua

Air Force	Xu Qiliang Ma Xiaotian Liu Yazhou Yi Xiaoguang

Rocket Force	Wei Fenghe

Armed Police	Wang Ning Sun Sijing

Although navy shang jiang* is officially translated as "admiral", there is no distinction between "general" and "admiral" in Chinese.

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