| Office1: | Head of the People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department |
| Term Start1: | November 2002 |
| Term End1: | October 2012 |
| Predecessor1: | Wang Ke |
| Successor1: | Zhao Keshi |
| Office2: | Commander of Chengdu Military Region |
| Term Start2: | 1995 |
| Term End2: | November 2002 |
| Predecessor2: | Wei Fulin |
| Successor2: | Wang Jianmin |
| Liao Xilong | |
| Native Name: | 廖锡龙 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Birth Place: | Sinan, Guizhou, China |
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
| Serviceyears: | 1959–2013 |
| Battles: | Sino-Vietnamese War Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991) |
Liao Xilong (; born June 1940) is a retired general in the People's Liberation Army.
Liao was born in Sinan, Guizhou Province. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in January 1959, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in February 1963. He graduated from the Basic Department of the Military Academy of the PLA in 1981.[1]
He was elevated to the deputy commander of the Chengdu Military Region in 1985. He spent months studying national defense at PLA National Defense University in 1986. He was promoted to the position of commander of the Chengdu Military Region and the CCP Deputy Committee Secretary there in 1995. From 1999 to 2001, he took graduate classes in Sociology at Peking University. In 2002, he was appointed the director of the General Logistics Department of the PLA and a member of the Central Military Commission of the CCP, and a year later, of the state.[1]
Liao was a member of the 15th, 16th and 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[1]