Song Qingwei Explained

Office1:Political Commissar of the Jinan Military Region
Term Start1:November 1987
Term End1:December 1994
1Blankname1:Commander
1Namedata1:Li Jiulong
Zhang Wannian
Zhang Taiheng
Predecessor1:Chi Haotian
Successor1:Du Tiehuan
Song Qingwei
Native Name:宋清渭
Native Name Lang:zh
Birth Name:Song Qinghu
Birth Date:March 1929
Birth Place:Ling County, Shandong, China
Party:Chinese Communist Party
Serviceyears:1945–2003
Rank: General
Battles:Chinese Civil War
Mawards: Order of Liberation (3rd Class; 1955)

Song Qingwei (; born March 1929 – 27 December 2022) was a general in the People's Liberation Army of China who was a political commissar of the Jinan Military Region from 1987 to 1994.

He was a delegate to the 6th and 7th National People's Congress and a member of the standing committee of the 9th National People's Congress. He was a representative of the 13th, 14th and 15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[1]

Biography

Song was born Song Qinghu in Ling County (now Lincheng District of Dezhou), Shandong, in March 1929.

He enlisted in the Eighth Route Army in June 1945, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October the same year. He served in the Bohai Military Area before being assigned to the in 1948.

After the establishment of the Communist State, he served in the Fuzhou Military District for a long time. In June 1985, he was made deputy political commissar of the Jinan Military Region], rising to political commissar in November 1987. He retired in July 2003.

He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in September 1988 and general (shangjiang) in May 1994.

From 1998 to 2003, he was the vice chairman of the National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee.[2]

In 2022, Son died from COVID-19 at the age of 93.

Work

Notes and References

  1. Book: zh . Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee . Party History Research Center of the CCP Central Committee . zh:中国共产党历届中央委员大辞典 1921–2003 . The Great Dictionary of Successive Central Committee Members of the Chinese Communist Party 1921–2003 . 2004 . CCP History Press . Beijing . 648–649 . 7-80136-946-7.
  2. Book: 中国共产党历届中央委员大辞典 1921-2003. 中共中央组织部. 中共中央党史研究室. 北京. 中共党史出版社. 1 November 2004. 7-80136-946-7. 648–649.