Name: Cheng Shicai
Date of birth: 1912.8.8
Date of death: 1990.11.15
Date of joining the Party: March 1931
Ethnicity: Han Chinese
Birthplace: Xuanhua Dian, Lishan County, Hubei Province, East Chengjiawa
Family composition: poor peasant families
Rank: Lieutenant General
Army Level: Deputy Corps Level
Medal of Order: Order of August 1st Class (No. 02067)
Order of Independence, Order of Freedom, 1st Class (No. 02062)
Liberation Medal 1st Class (No. 02185)
Medal of Merit of the Red Star, First Class
1930.4 Soldier of the First Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
Join the Communist Youth League of China
1931.1 Platoon Leader, Special Agent Company, 33rd Regiment, 11th Division, Red Fourth Army
Joined the Communist Party of China in March 1931
1931.11 Political Instructor of the Special Agent Company of the Thirty-third Regiment of the Eleventh Division of the Red Fourth Army
Secretary of the Party Branch of the 11th Division of the Fourth Red Army
Political Commissar of the 33rd Regiment of the 11th Division of the Red Fourth Army
1932.10 Commander of the 33rd Regiment of the 11th Division of the Red Fourth Army
1933.7 Political Commissar of the 90th Division of the Red 30th Army
Commander and Political Commissar of the 88th Division of the 30th Red Army in 1934
Deputy Commander of the Red Thirty Army
In March 1935, he participated in the Battle of Jialing River
1935.5 Acting Commander of the Red 30th Army
1935.5--1936.10 Participated in the Long March
1935.7 Commander of the Red 30th Army
In August 1935, he participated in the command of the Battle of Baozuo
In November 1936, he participated in the Western Expedition
1937.4 Member of the Working Committee of the Western Route Army
1937.12 Chinese studied at the University of Anti-Japanese Military and Political Science
1939.2 Chief of Staff of the Eighth Route Army Jirecha Advance Army
Member of the Military and Political Committee of the Eighth Route Army Jirecha Advancing Army
Commander of the Twelfth Detachment of the Eighth Route Army's Jirecha Advance Army
1940.9 Commander of Pingbei Military Sub-district
1942.3 Minister of the People's Armed Forces of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region
1943.6 Studied at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Deputy Director of the Fourth Department of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
1945.12 Commander of the Liaoning People's Self-Defense Army of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army
1946.1--1946.7 Commander of the South Manchuria Military Region of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army
1946.4 Commander of the 3rd Column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army
Participated in the Siping Defense Battle
1946.7 Commander of the 3rd Column of Liaodong Military Region
In October 1946, he participated in the Battle of Xinkailing
1946.12 Deputy Commander of Liaodong Military Region
1948.8 Commander of the Andong Military District
In September 1950 Chinese first deputy commander of the public security force of the People's Liberation Army
1951.1 Chinese studied at the Nanjing Military Academy of the People's Liberation Army
1955.7 Chinese First Deputy Commander of the Public Security Army of the People's Liberation Army
1957.8 Chinese Deputy Commander of Shenyang Military Region of the People's Liberation Army
Commander of the Shenyang Garrison District
1959.11--1982.9 Chinese Deputy Commander of the Armored Corps of the People's Liberation Army
1982.9 Member of the Central Advisory Committee
1990.11.15 Died in Beijing
![Cheng Shicai, founding lieutenant general and commander of the Red 30th Army, recalls the bloody battle "Hexi Corridor"[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)