Office1: | Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force | ||||||
Term Start1: | March 2022 | ||||||
Term End1: | July 2024 | ||||||
Predecessor1: | Li Yuchao | ||||||
Sun Jinming | |||||||
Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||
Birth Place: | Taizhou, Jiangsu, China | ||||||
Party: | Chinese Communist Party (expelled in 2024) | ||||||
Allegiance: | China | ||||||
Branch: | People's Liberation Army Rocket Force | ||||||
Rank: | Lieutenant general | ||||||
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Sun Jinming (; born March 1965) is a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army of China.
He was an alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[1]
Sun was born in Taizhou, Jiangsu, in March 1965.
He was promoted to deputy commander of the 52th Base of the Second Artillery Force in 2015. In 2017, he was promoted again to commander the 69th Base of the Second Artillery Force. In 2018, he was appointed commander the 64th Base of the Second Artillery Force, he remained in that position until March 2022, when he was chosen as chief of staff of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force.[2]
He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in August 2016 and lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in March 2022.[3]
In July 2024, the CCP Central Committee confirmed a decision to expel Sun during a plenary session.[4] [5]