1. Xu Guangda was a People's Liberation Army general who was conferred the Da Jiang rank in 1955.
14 Facts About Xu Guangda
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Xu Guangda joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1925 and the Chinese Communist Party later the same year.
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Xu Guangda took part in the Nanchang Uprising the same year, designated as the platoon leader and the substituted company commander.
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Xu Guangda was born on November 19,1908, in Changsha County, Hunan Province.
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Xu Guangda went to the primary school at the age of seven.
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Xu Guangda took turns to act as the army chief, the political committee member and division commander and so on.
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Xu Guangda took part in opening up the Soviet area centered on Honghu and for many times joined the counter-campaigns against "encirclement and suppression".
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Xu Guangda took part in the Battle of Shajiadian, Yan and Qing.
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Xu Guangda began to build the armored corps, started to investigate new domestic tanks.
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Xu Guangda was charged as "mutiny Chief of General Staff".
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Xu Guangda said, Xu Guangda was a loyal communist fighter, a great proletarian revolutionist and an outstanding strategist.
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Xu Guangda made great contributions to the founding of the People's Republic of China, devoting his whole life and energy to the CCP and the people.
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Xu Guangda contributed himself to the national independence of China and the liberation of the Chinese people.
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Xu Guangda's son, Xu Yanbin, is a professor as well as a member of the CCP who was born in May 1939.