Zhang Wentai Explained

Office1:

Political Commissioner of the People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department

Term Start1:

October 2002

Term End1:

June 2005

Predecessor1:

Zhou Kunren

Successor1:

Sun Dafa

Office2:

Political Commissioner of the Jinan Military Region

Term Start2:

September 1999

Term End2:

October 2002

Predecessor2:

Xu Caihou

Successor2:

Liu Dongdong

Zhang Wentai

Native Name:

张文台

Native Name Lang:

Birth Place:

Jiaozhou County, Shandong, China

Party:

Chinese Communist Party

Alma Mater:

Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party

Serviceyears:

1958–2005

Module:

Child:	yes
Order:	st
P:	Zhāng Wéntái

Zhang Wentai (; born April 1940) is a general (shangjiang) of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). He was a member of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.^[1]

Biography

Zhang was born in Jiaozhou County (now Jiaozhou City), Shandong, in April 1940.^[2]

He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in December 1958, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in September 1960. He served in Changbaishan Fortress Area between 1958 and 1975. In February 1975, he was assigned to Jinan Military Region, where he moved up the ranks to become deputy political commissioner in December 1993 and political commissioner in September 1999. He became political commissioner of the People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department in October 2002, and served until June 2005. In December 2005, he was made vice chairperson of the National People's Congress Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee, a position he held until March 2013.^[2] ^[3]

He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in September 1988, lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in July 1995 and general (shangjiang) in June 2004.

Personal life

His son-in-law,, political commissar of the 42nd Group Army and deputy political commissar of the Southern Theater Command Ground Force, suicided by taking sleeping pills in August 2016.^[4]

Publication

Book: zh . zh:张文台文丛 . Collected Works of Zhang Wentai . 1999 . Central Party Literature Press . Beijing . 9787507339635.
Book: zh . zh:聊天新语 . Chat Neologisms . 2006 . Huaxia Publishing House . Beijing . 9787508040165.
Book: zh . zh:来自实践的领导艺术 . Leadership from Practice . 2003 . Military Science Press . Beijing . 9787801375919.
Book: zh . zh:病中抒怀 . Expressing Feelings in Illness . 1999 . People's Literature Publishing House . Beijing . 9787020066469.
Book: zh . zh:生态智道 . Ecological Wisdom . 1999 . Zhejiang People's Publishing House . Hangzhou, Zhejiang . 9787213061110.
Book: zh . Zhang Wentai (Chinese: 张文台). Chen Shoupeng (Chinese: 陈寿朋). Xu Weixin (Chinese: 徐伟新). zh:生态文明建设论：领导干部需要把握的十个基本体系 . On the Construction of Ecological Civilization: Ten Basic Systems of Leaders . 2010 . CCP Central Party School Press . Beijing . 9787503542879.
Book: zh . Zhang Wentai . zh:中国环境文库：生态文明十论 . Talking About Ecological Civilization . 2012 . China Environmental Publishing House . Beijing . 9787511107541.
Book: zh. Zhang Quanjing (Chinese: 张全景). Zhang Wentai (Chinese: 张文台). Zhou Chang'an (Chinese: 周长安). zh:焦裕禄在兰考的470天 . Jiao Yulu's 470 days in Lankao . 2013 . Zhongzhou Ancient Books Publishing House . Zhengzhou, Henan . 9787534843402.

References

Notes and References

News: Tan Wenjuan (Chinese: 谭文娟). http://history.sina.com.cn/lszx/whrd/2014-01-30/163181578.shtml . zh:军中儒将张文台文丛在京出版 . sina . 30 January 2014 . 3 April 2022 . zh.
News: Zhang Huiqing (Chinese: 张惠清). Zhang Yuelin (Chinese: 张跃林). http://elite.youth.cn/gnb/201509/t20150916_7122410.htm . zh:张文台军中儒将的魅力与情怀 . youth.cn . 16 September 2015 . 3 April 2022 . zh.
News: Yin Yi (Chinese: 尹伊). http://news.youth.cn/gn/201008/t20100812_1314881.htm . zh:2010发展中国论坛在京召开环资委员副主任张文台出席 . youth.cn . 12 August 2010 . 3 April 2022 . zh.
News: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-38439352 . zh:解放军少将陈杰“因故死亡” 岳父曾任徐才厚副手 . BBC . 26 December 2016 . 3 April 2022 . zh.