On June 5, a delegation from the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference visited Luxembourg.Yu Xun, deputy director of the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Qin Weijiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy commander of the Eastern Theater Command, exchanged views on overseas Chinese policy recommendations, overseas Chinese affairs, overseas Chinese group construction, and more than 30 representatives of the Luxembourg Chinese group.
The third from the left in the front row is Qin Weijiang
According to the above reports, Qin Weijiang has been appointed as the deputy commander of the Eastern Theater Command.Previously, he served as Army Commander of the Eastern Theater Command.
Qin Weijiang was born in a general family, and his father was general Qin Jiwei. He served successively as a member of the Central Military Commission, State Councilor and Minister of Defense, a member of the 13th Central Political Bureau, and a vice chairman of the 8th National People's Congress Standing Committee.Qin Weijiang's younger brother, Qin Tian, is currently the deputy commander of the Armed Police Force. The combat unit of our army has the first deputy commander with a master's degree in military science. On January 31, 2002, Xinhua News Agency released the news, saying that Qin Weijiang, then deputy commander of a group army in the Beijing Military Region, obtained a master's degree in military science from the National Defense University., became the first military commander awarded a master's degree in military science in the PLA's combat units. When he received his master's degree in military science, Qin Weijiang was 46 years old and had the rank of major general.He has been working in the command post since he received a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Nanjing Communication Engineering Institute of the PLA in 1982.In 1998, he applied for a master's degree, specializing in foreign military strategy.Xinhua News Agency reported that during the four years of studying for a master's degree, he systematically studied more than 10 courses such as strategy, foreign military thinking, and the history of modern science and technology development in his spare time while working, and successfully passed the National Postgraduate Diploma.Unified foreign language examination. According to public reports, since then, Qin Weijiang has served as the former deputy chief of staff of the Beijing Military Region, the commander of the 27th Group Army, and in December 2010, the former deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region.During this period, he received a doctorate in management from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Qin Tian and Qin Weijiang
In January 2016, he served as the Army Commander of the Eastern Theater Command.In March of this year, he served as a member of the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Committee of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Most of Qin Weijiang's speeches at the group discussions of the National Two Sessions were related to military reform.
At the National Two Sessions in 2013, Qin Weijiang said in his speech that according to the budget draft submitted to the National People's Congress for deliberation, my country's national defense budget in 2013 was 720.168 billion yuan.To spend this money well, we must adhere to the standard of combat effectiveness.It is emphasized that military expenditures should be put on the cutting edge and invested in improving combat effectiveness. Those unnecessary non-combat expenditures must be reduced and cut down.
The current commander of the Eastern Theater Command is General Liu Yuejun, and the political commissar is Lieutenant General He Ping.
