Major General Cai Yongzhong of the Li Nationality became the eighth Political Commissa

Data map: Cai Yongzhong.Picture/cut from CCTV video

(Comprehensive report by reporter Lin Yunshi) 2018 marks the 21st anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, and Major General Cai Yongzhong of the Li nationality became the eighth political commissar of the Hong Kong Garrison.

According to news from Xinhua News Agency on May 15, recently, the leader of the Central Military Commission signed an order to appoint Major Cai Yongzhong, the deputy political commissar of the Hong Kong Garrison, as the political commissar of the Hong Kong Garrison.Vice Admiral Yuan Yubai, commander of the Southern Theater Command, visited the Hong Kong Garrison on the 15th to announce the order.

Major General Cai Yongzhong said through the press office that he has been serving as the deputy political commissar of the Hong Kong Garrison for more than three years, and he has deeply felt the important role of Hong Kong in the overall situation of national security and development and the great vitality of the great policy of one country, two systems.After taking up his new post this time, he will work with Lieutenant General Tan Benhong, the commander, to fully implement Chairman Xi Jinping's thought on building a strong army under the guidance of the Chinese leader's thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, lead the troops to focus on training and preparing for war, and implement the Basic Law and the garrison.The defense responsibilities entrusted by the law, resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests, and safeguard Hong Kong's prosperity and stability.

Major General Cai Yongzhong is the eighth political commissar of the Hong Kong Garrison.The previous seven were: Xiong Ziren, Wang Yufa (who was investigated in 2015 for suspected crimes), Liu Liangkai, Zhang Rucheng, Liu Liangkai, Wang Zengbo, and Yue Shixin, of which Yue Shixin was the one with the longest tenure.In addition, Xiong Ziren is the only general who has successively served as political commissar and commander of the Hong Kong Garrison. He is the first political commissar and second commander of the Hong Kong Garrison.

According to public information, Cai Yongzhong is a member of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, born in 1962, a native of Wanning, Hainan, and Li nationality.According to the website of his alma mater, Guangdong Technical Normal University (Guangdong University for Nationalities), Cai Yongzhong once gave two lectures on Zhuge Liang's military talent thought in CCTV's Peaceful Era Weekend Lectures column, and became a political cadre of combat troops on CCTV.The first person in the pulpit.

Lieutenant General Yue Shixin, the former political commissar of the Hong Kong Garrison, was transferred to the deputy political commissar of the Southern Theater Command in December 2017.Yue Shixin was transferred from the former political commissar of the 42nd Group Army to the political commissar of the Garrison in Hong Kong in July 2012, succeeding the vacancy left by Wang Zengbo as the former deputy political commissar of the Chengdu Military Region; he was promoted to lieutenant general in 2013.

The Hong Kong Garrison was established in early 1993 and entered Hong Kong at 00:00 on July 1, 1997.On June 30, 2017, Chinese leaders inspected and inspected the troops stationed in Hong Kong at the Shek Kong Barracks in Hong Kong.■