Li Da | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-hans |
Term Start: | 21 October 1972 |
Term End: | 11 January 1980 |
1Blankname: | Chairman |
1Namedata: | Mao Zedong |
Birth Date: | April 19, 1905 |
Birth Place: | Mei County, Shaanxi, Qing Empire |
Death Place: | Beijing |
Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
Branch: | People's Liberation Army |
Serviceyears: | 1930–1993 |
Rank: | General |
Commands: | Fifth Army Group, Eight Route Army |
Battles: | Encirclement Campaigns, Long March, 2nd Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War |
Li Da (; April 19, 1905 – July 12, 1993) was a general in the People's Liberation Army of China, former deputy of the PLA General Staff, as well as being an adviser to the Central Military Commission.
Xiao was born in Mei County, Shaanxi Province of China.
He joined the Sixth Army Group and participated the Encirclement Campaigns in 1930s. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1932 and participated in the Long March. He went to Jinggangshan and was recruited to the Red Fourth Army.
Between 1930 and 1933, he was appointed as first to command of the Third Army, and later Second Army Group, and later the Eighth Route Army, fighting in many battles consisting of the Nationalist Encirclement Campaigns till the Chinese Civil War.
He died in Beijing on July 12, 1993.