In 2018, at least five group army chiefs have been adjusted.The latest example is: Major General Wang Zhibin, former director of the Political Work Department of the 73rd Army, was recently promoted to political commissar of the 81st Army.His predecessor, Major General Fang Yongxiang, the first political commissar of the 81st Army, is currently an assistant to the director of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission, and concurrently serves as the deputy director of the Veterans Affairs Department.
According to the news on October 25th from the WeChat official account of the Central Theater Army, from October 21st to 24th, a total of 28 leading cadres of the 81st Army's head office, part of the regiment and above, looked back at the holy land of Yan'an, and visited the place where the leaders of the Central Committee once jumped in the queue.Liangjiahe Village, etc.Wang Zhibin, political commissar of the 81st Group Army, led the cadres to review the oath of joining the party on Baota Mountain.
According to public information, Wang Zhibin served in the former Nanjing Military Region for a long time, and served as the political commissar of a coastal defense division of the Fujian Provincial Military Region.After the formation of the Army Group in April 2017, at the latest in December of that year, Wang Zhibin was appointed Director of the Political Work Department of the 73rd Army Group Army.Since 2016, Wang Zhibin has adjusted his position every year. After taking up his new post this time, he exchanged from the Army of the Eastern Theater to the Army of the Central Theater.
Fang Yongxiang, the first political commissar of the 81st Army, also served in the former Nanjing Military Region for a long time. He is 52 years old this year (born in August 1966). He is from Tongan, Fujian Province. Like Wang Zhibin, he was once the director of the Political Department of the 1st Army Group.Director, became the first political commissar of the 81st Army in 2017.In April 2018, Fang Yongxiang was transferred to the assistant director of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission, and concurrently served as the deputy minister of the newly established Ministry of Veterans Affairs after the institutional reform.
According to official public information, since 2018, at least five army chiefs have been adjusted, among which the new military and political chiefs of the 71st Army have been in place, as follows:
