When it comes to the development history of the People's Liberation Army, there is one thing that can be said to have gone through twists and turns, that is, the establishment and improvement of the rank system of the People's Liberation Army, and in the last century, the People's Liberation Army has held two awards, one is the big award after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1955, and the other is the restoration of the rank system again in 1988.
Of course, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the articles on the introduction can be said to be innumerable, and here we will pass through them all, without mentioning them, and the focus of our article today is the special scene that occurred in the Navy when the title was awarded for the second time in 1988.
Li Yaowen
It turned out that in this award, Li Yaowen, who was the political commissar of the Navy at the time, obtained the rank of admiral, but Zhang Lianzhong, who served as the commander of the Navy, only obtained the rank of lieutenant general.
Looking at the history of our army, and even the conferment of military titles under the leadership of the Communist Parties in other countries in the world, this kind of thing is also rare, because according to the general situation, the commander of a certain service, most of the ranks are the same as the political commissar, and some may be the commander higher than the political commissar, but there will never be a situation where the political commissar is higher than the commander.
To talk about the ins and outs of this matter, we actually have to start with General Li Yaowen, the political commissar of the Navy, and this general of our army who has made great contributions to naval construction actually has a lack of understanding of him.
Why? Because many people do not know one thing, this is that General Lee Yiu-man is not only a general when he was awarded the rank in 1988, he was also the founding major general when he was awarded the title in 1955, of course, this seniority is not enough to be the fundamental reason why he will receive the rank of general in the future.
The crux of the matter is that our navy has undergone this tortuous and great development process since the 1980s, and during this difficult period, General Lee Yiu-man was the planner, and he still fought on the front line at the age of flower armor and personally experienced this chapter of history.
It was in the early 1980s, when Comrade Deng Xiaoping set the tone for the future development of the Navy: "Building a strong navy with modern combat capabilities and consolidating a strong coastal defense is a major event related to the destiny of the country and the nation."
However, at that time, the gap between the continental navy and the navies of other major powers in the world was still large, and there was almost no ability to fight in the ocean, only the strength of coastal defense, and it was in this situation that General Lee Yiu-moon came to the navy and served as the political commissar of the navy.
In the following eight years, General Li Yaowen successively worked with two famous generals of our army, one was the famous General Ye Fei, and the other was Liu Huaqing, who had worked with his partner for five years. ”
From here, we cannot see that before Zhang Lianzhong came to the Navy as commander, General Li Yaowen had already served as political commissar for eight years, so in terms of seniority and contribution, General Zhang Lianzhong could never be compared with Li Yaowen, of course, Li Yaowen was already seventy years old at this time, while Zhang Lianzhong, who was only in his fifties, could be said to be very young.
And this kind of "veteran generals with new people" leadership group was actually a major trend in the development of our army at that time, which was the so-called special treatment of special circumstances, which led to the fact that when the title was awarded in 1988, Li Yaowen, political commissar of the Navy, was a general and Zhang Lianzhong was a lieutenant general.
Of course, General Li Yaowen himself, he participated in the revolution more than ten years earlier than Zhang Lianzhong, when he was a senior cadre of our army, Zhang Lianzhong only joined the army, so general Zhang Lianzhong did not have any ideas about his rank lower than Li Yaowen.
Eventually, it was not until 1990 that General Lee Yao-man was too old to take on heavy work, so he retired to the second line and left the leadership position, and General Zhang Lianzhong was later promoted to the rank of admiral in 1993.
Of course, although General Li Yaowen was only the political commissar of the Navy and had not served as a commander, it is undeniable that in the ten years that General Li Yaowen served as political commissar of the Navy, his contributions and contributions were absolutely enormous, and it can be said that it is the mainstay of the rapid development of our Navy after the reform and opening up.
Even if the article writes that this is the end, looking at the people's navy since its establishment, from being poor and white to making great strides to catch up with the trend of the world, it is precisely because there are conscientious veterans like General Lee Yiu-wen who fight in the front line and shine for the republic.
If we say that the first generation of founding leaders of New China were a process of raising the people's army from scratch, then the pillars of the post-era state who took General Li Yaowen as an example are the process of changing the people's army from weak to strong, let us pay tribute to General Li Yaowen, he is always worthy of our remembrance!