Tong Baocun
佟宝存
Deputy Commander of the Shenyang Military Region
In office
April 1990  November 1996
CommanderLiu Jingsong
Wang Ke
Li Xinliang
Preceded byZhu Dunfa
Succeeded byWu Yuqian
Personal details
BornNovember 1933
Laoting County, Hebei, China
Died24 October 2020(2020-10-24) (aged 86)
Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Military service
Allegiance People's Republic of China
Branch/service People's Liberation Army Ground Force
Years of service1947–1996
Rank Lieutenant general
CommandsShenyang Military Region
Battles/warsChinese Civil War
Korean War
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese

Tong Baocun (Chinese: 佟宝存; November 1933 – 24 October 2020) is a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army of China.

He was a member of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[1][2][3] He was a delegate to the 7th National People's Congress.[1] He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[1]

Biography

Tong was born in Laoting County, Hebei, in November 1933.[1]

He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in October 1947, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in November 1948.[1] During the Chinese Civil War, he served in the war and engaged in the Yangtze River Crossing campaign and the Battle of Wuhan.[1] After the founding of the Communist State in 1949, he participated in the Korean War.[1] He served in the Jinan Military Region for a long time.[1] In April 1990, he was promoted to become deputy commander of the Shenyang Military Region, a position he held until November 1996.[1]

On 24 October 2020, he died from an illness in Shenyang, Liaoning, at the age of 86.[1]

He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in September 1988 and lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in June 1991.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Wang Shiyao (王诗尧) (10 November 2020). 佟宝存同志逝世. chinanews.com.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  2. Zhang Jingru (张静如); Liu Huijun (刘会军); Liu Minbian (刘敏编), eds. (2012). 中国共产党历届代表大会:一大到十八大 [Successive Congresses of the Chinese Communist Party: From the First National Congress to the 18th National Congress] (in Chinese). Shijiazhuang, Hebei: Hebei Peoples Publishing House. ISBN 9787202070840.
  3. 十四届中央委员会中央委员名单. caixin.com (in Chinese). 29 October 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
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