Office1: | Political Commissar of the Shenyang Military Region | ||||||||||
Term Start1: | November 1987 | ||||||||||
Term End1: | December 1993 | ||||||||||
Predecessor1: | Liu Zhenhua | ||||||||||
Successor1: | Li Xinliang | ||||||||||
Song Keda | |||||||||||
Native Name: | 宋克达 | ||||||||||
Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||||||
Birth Date: | 1928 7, df=yes | ||||||||||
Birth Place: | Yancheng County, Jiangsu, China | ||||||||||
Death Place: | Shenyang, Liaoning, China | ||||||||||
Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||||
Alma Mater: | Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||||
Serviceyears: | 1944–1993 | ||||||||||
Rank: | Lieutenant general | ||||||||||
Battles: | Second Sino-Japanese War Chinese Civil War Korean War | ||||||||||
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Song Keda (; 5 July 1928 – 17 September 1995) was a lieutenant general (zhongjiang) of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). He was a delegate to the 6th National People's Congress. He was an alternate member of the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
Song was born Song Chongkuan in Yancheng County (now Yancheng), Jiangsu, on 5 July 1928.[1]
He enlisted in the New Fourth Army in August 1944, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 1945. He served in the 39th Group Army before being transferred to Shenyang Military Region in 1954. In 1964, he was reassigned to the 39th Group Army, where he was promoted to become deputy director of its Political Department in 1970 and political commissar in May 1983. In June 1985, he became deputy political commissar of Shenyang Military Region, rising to political commissar in November 1987. He attained the rank of lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in September 1988.[1]
On 17 September 1995, he died of an illness in Shenyang, Liaoning, at the age of 67.[1]