11 Facts About Hong Xuezhi

Hong Xuezhi was a Chinese general and politician.

Hong Xuezhi was the only person awarded the rank of 3-star general in 1955 who was reawarded the same rank in 1988 as an active PLA officer when the PLA readopted a rank system.

Hong Xuezhi survived and gained promotions during Chiang Kai-shek's Encirclement Campaigns during the early Chinese Civil War.

In 1935, Hong joined the Long March with the New Fourth Army.

Hong Xuezhi participated in the armistice negotiations that ended the Korean War in 1953.

Hong Xuezhi was removed from his position in 1959 for his connections with marshal Peng Dehuai, who was dismissed from office for criticizing Mao Zedong's economic policies during the Great Leap Forward.

Hong Xuezhi was rehabilitated in the early 1960s and made director of heavy industry of Jilin province, but was persecuted by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.

Hong Xuezhi was then made director of Jilin's oil industry in 1974.

Hong Xuezhi joined the Central Military Commission and became the vice chairman of the 7th and 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committees.

In 1988 when ranks were readopted by the PLA, Hong Xuezhi became the only 1955 Shang Jiang to be reawarded the same rank.

In 1989, Hong Xuezhi retired from the position of the deputy secretary-general of the Central Military Commission.