1. Wei Guoqing was a Chinese government official, military officer and political commissar of Zhuang ethnicity.
12 Facts About Wei Guoqing
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Wei Guoqing served as the Chairman of Guangxi from 1958 to 1975 and on the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo and as Director of the People's Liberation Army's General Political Department.
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Wei Guoqing was a Vice Chair of the National People's Congress Standing Committee and of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Wei Guoqing was born in Donglan, Guangxi, to a poor Zhuang minority family.
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Wei Guoqing joined the Chinese Red Army at the age of 16 and the CCP in 1931.
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In 1949, Wei Guoqing was deputy political commissar of General Ye Fei's Tenth Army Group of the Third Field Army.
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Wei Guoqing was deeply involved in China's relations with North Vietnam from 1950.
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Wei Guoqing was specifically instructed to discuss military matters with the Vietnamese delegation when Molotov, Smith and Eden were not present.
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When formal military ranks were introduced in 1955, Wei Guoqing was made a general, and in 1956 became an Alternate Member of the Central Committee at the Eighth National Party Congress.
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General Wei Guoqing was named 1st Political Commissar of the Guangxi Military District in January 1964, a post he held until October 1975.
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Wei Guoqing added the leadership of the CCP committee in February 1971.
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Wei Guoqing resigned from his posts in 1985 and died in Beijing in June 1989.