On the evening of December 8, 2018, Guangdong Province celebrated the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up in Guangzhou. Li Xi, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, Yuan Yubai, commander of the Southern Theater Command, Ma Xingrui, Governor of Guangdong Province, and Air Force Commander of the Southern Theater CommandZhou Li (first from left) and others attended the viewing party.

Original title: Major General Zhou Li, the former commander of the Henan Provincial Military Region, has been promoted to the commander of the Air Force of the Southern Theater

State media recently revealed that Air Force Major General Zhou Li, who had previously stepped down as the commander of the Henan Provincial Military Region, has been promoted to the post of commander of the Southern Theater Air Force, and has been promoted to the rank of deputy theater-level officers.

According to the Nanfang Daily, on the evening of December 8, 2018, Guangdong Province celebrated the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up in Guangzhou.Zhou Li, Commander of the Air Force of the Southern Theater Command, and others attended the viewing party.

This means that after Lieutenant General Xu Anxiang was transferred to be the deputy commander of the Air Force, Zhou Li took over his original position as the Air Force Commander of the Southern Theater Command.

According to official public information, Zhou Li served as the former deputy chief of staff of the Air Force of the Nanjing Military Region, the former chief of staff of the Air Force of the Jinan Military Region, the former deputy commander of the Air Force of the Jinan Military Region, and the director of the Aftermath Office of the Air Force of the Jinan Military Region. He was transferred to the commander of the Henan Provincial Military Region before April 2017., Air Force major general rank.

In June 2018, public news reports by local Henan media disclosed that Zhou Li no longer served as the commander of the Henan Provincial Military Region.

In deepening the reform of national defense and the army, Lieutenant General Xu Anxiang took up the position of the first commander of the Air Force of the Southern Theater Command.In October 2017, Xu Anxiang was elected as a member of the 19th Central Committee.He then transitioned to deputy commander of the Air Force until February 2018.