Jiang Zhong, founding Major General and former Chief Staff Jiang Zhong

Major General Jiang Zhong, founding Major General and former Minister of Staff, died on the morning of the 29th at the age of 101.

According to the surging news report, the media learned from Jiang Zhong's relatives and friends and relevant departments of Bazhong City, Sichuan Province, and died at the PLA General Hospital at the age of 101 on the morning of September 29.General Jiang Zhong's farewell ceremony was planned to be held after the National Day of China.

According to previous reports, Jiang Zhong, formerly known as Jiang Xindeng, was born in August 1919 in a peasant family of Jiangjiahe, Jiangjiahe, Bazhongjiangkou County (now Pingchang County).Due to the poor family, he cut grass and cows with his brothers and sisters at the age of five or six. He lived with his parents when he was seven or eight years old.

At the end of 1932, the Red Fourth Army went to Pingchang. Under the leadership of his father, Jiang Zhong signed up for the boy group. Soon he joined the Chinese Communist Youth League and served as the head of the Tongzi group.At the end of April 1933, Jiang Zhong, under 14 years old, went to Tongjiang to participate in the membership Congress, and signed up to participate in the Red Army.

After the July 7th incident, the Central Military Commission decided to carry out technical reconnaissance of the Japanese invading Japanese army.In February 1938, Jiang Zhong was transferred to the training class of the second bureau of the Military Commission to study foreign languages.Since then, he has invested in a hidden front and engaged in intelligence work.In June 1954, he was transferred to the Director and Secretary of the Party Committee of the Southwest Technical Bureau of the Military Commission, and successfully completed the intelligence guarantee mission of anti -French aid and border struggle.In 1982, Jiang Zhong served as the three ministers of the General Staff.He has been engaged in intelligence for half a century in the people's army and has the reputation of intelligence generals.

During the Red Army period, Jiang Zhong served as a propagandist and secretary of the county party committee.During the Anti -Japanese period, he was a department, the head of the stock, the deputy section chief, the officer of the association, and the chief of the section.During the war of liberation, he served as deputy director and 4 director of North China Revolutionary University.After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was the director, the director of education, the vice president, the director of the Southwest Second Bureau, the director of the three bureaus of the General Staff, the director of the Business Guidance Bureau, the deputy minister, the first deputy minister, and the minister.In 1961, he was promoted to the rank of major general.