Chen Kang (1910.04.07---2002.05.23), formerly known as Chen Wuhe. Hubei Wuxue Huaqiao Town people. He joined the Red Army in 1930 and the Communist Party of China in 1931. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he successively served as a squad leader and platoon leader of the 29th Regiment of the 10th Division of the 4th Army of the Red Fourth Front, a political instructor of the 73rd Division Company, participated in the struggle to create the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet District and the anti-Three-Way Siege and the Anti-Sixth Road Siege, and later served as a battalion instructor and battalion commander of the 274th Regiment of the 92nd Division of the Red 31st Army, and participated in the Long March after May 1935, and then successively served as the deputy regimental commander of the 75th Regiment of the 25th Division of the 25th Division of the Red 9th Army, the commander of the 80th Regiment of the 27th Division, and the commander of the 276th Regiment of the 91st Division of the Red 31st Army. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he entered the third phase of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the battalion commander of the supplementary battalion of the New Fourth Army, the instructor, battalion commander and chief instructor of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the deputy regimental commander and regimental commander of the 17th Regiment of the 386th Brigade, the commander of the 772nd Regiment, the deputy commander and acting commander of the Fourth Military Subdistrict of the Taiyue Military Region, and led the troops to participate in the Hundred Regiments War and the Taiyue District Counter-Sweeping Campaign. During the Liberation War, he successively served as the commander of the 13th Brigade of the 4th Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army, and the deputy commander of the 13th Army of the Second Field Army. He successively participated in the battles of Shangdang, Western Henan, Huaihai, Dujiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Southern Yunnan. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as the commander of the 13th Army, the deputy commander of the Kunming Military Region and the commander of the Yunnan Provincial Military Region, and the acting commander of the Kunming Military Region, and participated in the command of the Sino-Burmese border survey guard operation. Since 1968, he has been the deputy director of the Yunnan Provincial Revolutionary Committee, the secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the deputy commander of the Lanzhou Military Region. He is a member of the Ninth and Tenth Central Committees of the Communist Party of China and a member of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general and was awarded the Order of August 1, Second Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom, Second Class, and the Liberation Medal, First Class. In 1988, he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Red Star, First Class. He presided over the compilation of the Military History of the Fifteenth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.