Founding General (131) Lieutenant General Chen Kang

Name: Chen Kang

Former name: Chen Wuhe

Date of birth: 1910.3.9

Date of death: 2002.5.23

Date of joining the Party: March 1931

Ethnicity: Han Chinese

Birthplace: Zhakou Village, Zhenggongta Town, Guangji County, Hubei Province

Family composition: poor peasant families

Wife: Guo Qing

Rank: Lieutenant General

Army Level: Regular Army Level

Medal: Order of August 1, 2nd Class

Order of Independence, Order of Freedom, Second Class

Liberation Medal 1st Class (No. 02363)

Medal of Merit of the Red Star, First Class

1917 Cattle grazing for landlords

1927.8 Member of the Red Guards of Zhakou Village

Member of the Guangji County Red Guards

1930.7 Soldier of the Fourth Column of the Eighth Army of the Third Red Army

1931.1 Squad Leader of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion, 29th Regiment, 10th Division, Red Fourth Army

Joined the Communist Party of China in March 1931

1931.7 Platoon Commander, 7th Company, 3rd Battalion, 29th Regiment, 10th Division, Red Fourth Army

1931.10 Platoon Commander of the 219th Regiment of the Provisional 73rd Division of the Red Twenty-fifth Army

1932.12 Instructor of the Ninth Company of the 3rd Battalion, 218th Regiment, 73rd Division, Red 25th Army

1933.7 Instructor of the 2nd Battalion, 274th Regiment, 92nd Division, 31st Army, Red Fourth Front

1934.8 Commander of the 2nd Battalion, 274th Regiment, 92nd Division, 31st Army, Red Fourth Front

In March 1935, he participated in the Battle of Jialing River

1935.5--1936.10 Participated in the Long March

1935.8 Deputy Commander of the 274th Regiment of the 92nd Division of the 31st Army of the Red Fourth Front

Deputy Commander of the Seventy-fifth Regiment of the Twenty-fifth Division of the Ninth Army of the Red Fourth Front

1936.4 Studied in the First Senior Command Section of the Red Army University of the Red Army of the Fourth Red Front

1936.7 Commander of the 276th Regiment of the 91st Division of the 31st Army of the Red Fourth Front

1937.9--1938.4 Chinese the third period of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University

1938.4 Commander of Zhugou Supplementary Battalion of the New Fourth Army

Captain of the Political Training Team of the New Fourth Army

1939.1 Military Chief Instructor of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army

Deputy captain of the cadet team of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army with the battalion

1940.10 Deputy Commander of the 17th Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army

1941.10 Commander of the 17th Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army

1942.5 Commander of the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade, 129th Division, Eighth Route Army

1945.3 Acting Commander of the Fourth Military Subdistrict of Taiyue Military Region

In August 1945, he participated in the Shangdang Campaign

1945.10 Brigade Commander of the 13th Brigade of the 4th Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region

In February 1949 Chinese deputy commander of the 13th Army of the 4th Corps of the 2nd Field Army of the People's Liberation Army

In September 1952 Chinese commander of the 13th Army of the 4th Corps of the 2nd Field Army of the People's Liberation Army

1952.9 Chinese studied at the Nanjing Military Academy of the People's Liberation Army

1956.7 Deputy Commander of Kunming Military Region

1957.8 Commander of Yunnan Provincial Military Region

1968.8 Deputy Director of Yunnan Provincial Revolutionary Committee

Secretary of the Cpc Yunnan Provincial Committee

1977.12--1981.11 Deputy Commander of Lanzhou Military Region

2002.5.23 Died in Beijing