15 Facts About Huang Kecheng

Huang Kecheng was a senior general in the People's Liberation Army.

Huang Kecheng was born in Yongxing, Hunan Province, and he was the third of four children.

Huang Kecheng's father was Huang Qingzhu, and his mother was Deng Longtao.

Huang Kecheng worked as a farm labourer on his family land, and completed high school when he turned 20, in 1920, from the Hunan 3rd Normal School.

In 1929, Huang Kecheng was serving under Peng Dehuai in a Kuomintang regiment stationed in northern Hunan.

Huang Kecheng led the Yongxing campaign during Xiangnan campaign in 1928, and participated major battles encountered by the Red Army Third Division.

Huang Kecheng's army accompanied Xu Haidong, fighting in regions across Shanxi, Hebei and Henan.

Huang Kecheng later became the state secretary of Hunan, the Commander of Hunan Military Region and its political commissar, the deputy director of the chief staff and director of general logistics, the deputy minister of national defense, the secretary general of the Central Military Commission, and the chief of staff of the PLA.

Huang Kecheng was made a senior general in 1955, and awarded the Army Medal, the Order of Independence and Freedom Medal, and the Order of Liberation.

Huang Kecheng was an alternate and then formal member of the 7th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and a member of the 8th Central Committee.

In 1959, Huang Kecheng criticized the Great Leap Forward and People's Communes and was denounced as a member of an "Anti-Party group" associated with Peng Dehuai when Peng was criticized at the Mountain Lu Conference.

Huang Kecheng was deprived of all positions and was placed under investigation.

Huang Kecheng was partially rehabilitated, but was denounced and persecuted by Red Guards when the Cultural Revolution began in 1966.

In 1977, after Deng Xiaoping came to power, Huang Kecheng was politically rehabilitated.

Huang Kecheng was selected as central committee member again in 1978.