Office1: | Political Commissar of the PLA Academy of Military Science |
Term Start1: | June 2017 |
Term End1: | December 2020 |
President1: | Yang Xuejun |
Predecessor1: | Xu Yaoyuan |
Successor1: | Bai Lü |
Office2: | Director of Political Department of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force |
Term Start2: | December 2015 |
Term End2: | June 2017 |
Predecessor2: | New title |
Office3: | Director of Political Department of the People's Armed Police |
Term Start3: | July 2015 |
Term End3: | December 2015 |
Fang Xiang | |
Native Name: | 方向 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Birth Place: | Chun'an County, Zhejiang, China |
Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
Serviceyears: | ?–2020 |
Rank: | Lieutenant general |
Fang Xiang (; born October 1957) is a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army of China. He was an alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
Fang was born in Chun'an County, Zhejiang, in October 1957. He was deputy secretary-general of the Office of the People's Liberation Army General Political Department in 2010 and then head of its Organization Division in 2013. In July 2015, he was promoted to become director of Political Department of the People's Armed Police (PAP),[1] a position he held until December 2015. On 31 December 2015, he was made director of the newly founded Political Department of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF),[2] and served until June 2017, when he was appointed political commissar of the PLA Academy of Military Science.[3]
He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in 2010 and lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in August 2016.[4] [5]