In addition to the political commissar, some units of the army also have the first political commissar. People often ask the question: Who is the first political commissar and the political commissar? Which level is higher?
In fact, the first political commissar and political commissar of the same unit are both political chief officers, and the level is the same level, but the first political commissar ranks first, and the responsibilities and powers are different. The first political commissar is usually also the head of the party committee, that is, the first secretary or secretary. For example, in 1964, General Song Renqian, the first political commissar of the Shenyang Military Region, was appointed first secretary of the party committee of the Shenyang Military Region, General Lai Chuanzhu, the second political commissar, was appointed second secretary, and General Chen Xilian, commander of the Shenyang Military Region, was appointed third secretary. In 1964, Li Xuefeng, the first political commissar of the Beijing Military Region, was appointed first secretary of the party committee of the Beijing Military Region, commander General Yang Yong was appointed second secretary, and second political commissar Lieutenant General Liao Hansheng was appointed third secretary.
Song Ren, the first political commissar of the Shenyang Military Region, was a poor general
Of course, there are exceptions, that is, the first political commissar is not the number one of the party committee, which is usually related to the seniority of the military commander, such as in May 1972, Ji Dengkui was appointed as the first political commissar of the Beijing Military Region, when the commander of the Beijing Military Region was li Desheng, the founding major general Li Desheng, Li Desheng was also the director of the General Political Department at this time, and his seniority and fame were above Ji Dengkui, so Li Desheng was the first secretary of the party committee of the Beijing Military Region, Ji Dengkui was the second secretary, and Chen Xianrui, the political commissar of the Beijing Military Region, was the third secretary. Soon after, the commanders of the eight major military regions were transferred, and Chen Xilian, commander of the Shenyang Military Region, was transferred to Li Desheng and served as the commander of the Beijing Military Region. Chen Xilian was a 55-year general with even older seniority, and after arriving in the Beijing Military Region, with the approval of the CPC Central Committee, he was added as the first secretary of the party committee of the military region, while Ji Dengkui, the first political commissar of the Beijing Military Region, and Chen Xianrui, the political commissar, were still the second and third secretaries.
The First Political Commissar has both full-time and part-time political commissars. Generally speaking, there were quite a few part-time posts, such as the former first secretary of the six major local bureaus of the CENTRAL Committee and the first political commissar of the Shenyang, Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Lanzhou military regions; General Song Renqiang, although he had a military rank, he was the secretary of the Northeast Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the time; the top leaders of the party committees of various provinces, prefectures (cities), and cities (counties) were also the first political commissars of the provincial military districts, military sub-districts, and the people's armed forces departments in their respective regions, that is, the secretaries of the provincial party committees and the first political commissars of the provincial military regions, the secretaries of the prefectural party committees and the secretaries of the prefectural-level municipal party committees and the first political commissars of the military subdistricts, and the secretaries of the municipal (county), county, and municipal party committees. The first political commissar of the county people's armed forces department.
The Minister of Public Security was also the first political commissar of the Armed Police Headquarters, the director of the Public Security Department and the first political commissar of the Armed Police Corps and the detachment.
In addition to the first political commissar, some units also have a second political commissar or even a third political commissar. For example, in the early days of the founding of New China, Luo Ronghuan, the first political commissar of the Central and Southern Military Region, Deng Zihui, the second political commissar, and Tan Zheng, the third political commissar. In the mid-1960s, the Nanjing Military Region had the first to seventh political commissars, namely Ke Qingshi, Tang Liang, Jiang Weiqing, Xiao Wangdong, Jiang Hua, Li Baohua, and Du Ping. Among them, General Tang Liang, Lieutenant General Xiao Wangdong, and Lieutenant General Du Ping are all military generals in the major military regions; others are local leading cadres who hold part-time posts: Ke Qingshi is the first secretary of the East China Bureau, Jiang Weiqing is the first secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial CPC Committee and the first political commissar of the Jiangsu Provincial Military Region, Jiang Hua is the first secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial CPC Committee and the first political commissar of the Zhejiang Provincial Military Region, and Li Baohua is the first secretary of the Anhui Provincial CPC Committee and the first political commissar of the Anhui Provincial Military Region.
Luo Ronghuan, the first political commissar of the Central and Southern Military Region in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China
Some branches of the armed forces also have a first political commissar, such as the Navy in the late 1960s and 1970s, Li Zuopeng and Su Zhenhua served as the first political commissar of the Navy; in August 1975, the former Air Force political commissar Yu Lijin resumed his work as the second political commissar of the Air Force, and fu Chuanzuo (later Zhang Tingfa), the then political commissar of the Air Force, became the de facto first political commissar. In 1964, the Railway Corps set up the first political commissar, and Lu Zhengcao, minister of railways, concurrently served as the minister of railways.
General Lü Zhengcao, the first political commissar of the Railway Corps
The Academy of Military Sciences also set up a first political commissar. In October 1972, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided that after Ye Jianying presided over the daily work of the Central Military Commission, he would no longer serve as president and political commissar of the Academy of Military Sciences. In November of the same year, Song Shi, vice president of the Academy of Military Sciences, took turns as president. Song Shilun was a 55-year general, but how were the 55-year generals Su Yu and Wang Shusheng, who were also vice presidents of the Academy of Military Sciences at that time, arranged their posts? As a result, they were successively appointed as the first and second political commissars of the Academy of Military Sciences. At that time, the Academy of Military Sciences also had political commissars Wang Xinting and Liao Hansheng. Su Yu, Wang Shusheng, and Song Shilun were the first, second, and third secretaries of the party committee of the Academy of Military Sciences, respectively, indicating that Su Yu and Wang Shusheng ranked ahead of Song Shilun as generals. In August 1975, Xiao Hua was appointed as the second political commissar of the Academy of Military Sciences (Wang Shusheng died in January 1974), because Xiao was also a general in 1955, the rankings of the first, second and third secretaries of the party committee of the Academy of Military Sciences changed, namely Su Yu, Song Shilun and Xiao Hua.
Su Yu, first political commissar of the Academy of Military Sciences
Some production and construction corps also have a first political commissar, which is generally concurrently served by the secretary of the provincial party committee of the province where he is located (and also the first political commissar of the provincial military region), such as Pan Fusheng, the first secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, who concurrently serves as the first political commissar of the provincial military region and the first political commissar of the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps, and Peng Chong, deputy secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee (who presides over the work of the provincial party committee), concurrently serves as the first political commissar of the Jiangsu Provincial Military Region and the first political commissar of the Jiangsu Production and Construction Corps.
The commissar has a first commissar, but not a first commander, which also reflects the difference between political work and military work.