Office1: | Assistant to the Chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army | ||||||
Term Start1: | December 2014 | ||||||
Term End1: | December 2015 | ||||||
Predecessor1: | Gao Jin | ||||||
Successor1: | Position revoked | ||||||
Office2: | Chief of Staff of the Jinan Military Region | ||||||
Term Start2: | December 2012 | ||||||
Term End2: | December 2014 | ||||||
Predecessor2: | Zhao Zongqi | ||||||
Office3: | Commander of the 26th Group Army | ||||||
Term Start3: | January 2008 | ||||||
Term End3: | December 2012 | ||||||
Ma Yiming | |||||||
Native Name: | 马宜明 | ||||||
Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||
Birth Place: | Deng County, Henan, China | ||||||
Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
Allegiance: | China | ||||||
Serviceyears: | ?–2020 | ||||||
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Ma Yiming (; born August 1957) is a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army of China.
Ma was born in Deng County (now Dengzhou), Henan, in August 1957. He was assigned to the 26th Group Army (now 80th Group Army) in 2004. He moved up the ranks to become chief of staff in March 2004 and commander in February 2008. In December 2012, he was made chief of staff of the Jinan Military Region, but having held the position for only two years, then he was promoted to become assistant to the Chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army. In January 2016, he was commissioned as assistant chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission,[1] and one year later rose to become deputy chief of staff,[2] serving in the post until his retirement in December 2020.
He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in July 2005 and lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in July 2014.