Wu Zhong
Wu Zhong (1921-1990), formerly known as Wu Guangzhu. Zodiac Sign: Chicken. A native of Cangxi County, Sichuan Province.
In 1933, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and joined the Communist Youth League of China, and became a member of the Communist Party of China in 1935.
During the agrarian revolutionary war, he served as a propagandist, squad leader, platoon leader, and regimental political office officer of the 268th Regiment of the 90th Division of the Red 30th Army; he participated in the anti-"siege" operation in the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area and the Long March of the Red Fourth Front, and crossed the snowy mountains and meadows three times.
Order of August 1, 3rd Class
During the Period of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as platoon commander and deputy company commander of the Special Agent Regiment of the Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, company commander and deputy battalion commander of the 2nd Regiment of the Jinxi Independent Detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, battalion commander of the 8th Regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the 115th Division, commander of the Kun (Shan) Zhang (Qiu) Detachment of the 2nd Column of the Eighth Route Army (Political Commissar Shao Ziyan), deputy regimental commander of the 5th Regiment of the 8th Military Sub-district of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army (regimental commander Li Defang, political commissar Shao Ziyan), and regimental commander.
Order of Independence, Order of Freedom, Second Class
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the commander of the 58th Regiment of the 20th Brigade of the 7th Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army (political commissar Shi Luo), the deputy brigade commander of the 20th Brigade of the 1st Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army (brigade commander Kuang Bin, political commissar Shi Xin'an), the brigade commander, the brigade commander of the 20th Brigade of the 1st Column of the Central Plains Field Army (political commissar Liu Zhenguo), and the first division commander of the 52nd Division of the 18th Army of the 5th Corps of the 5th Corps of the Second Field Army (political commissar Liu Zhenguo).
Liberation Medal, Second Class
After the founding of New China, he successively served as commander and political commissar of the 52nd Division of the 18th Army of the People's Liberation Army, cadet of the Nanjing Military Academy of the People's Liberation Army, commander of the 31st Division of the 12th Army of the Chinese Volunteer Army (1952-1954), commander of the 1st Mechanized Division of the People's Liberation Army and commander of the 40th Army (1963), first deputy commander of the Beijing Garrison District (1968), commander (1970-1977), and secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China (1971-1977, with a first secretary), Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Revolutionary Committee (1973-1977), Deputy Commander of the Guangzhou Military Region (1977-1980).
In 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (at the age of 34, the youngest founding major general), and was awarded the Order of August 1 of the Third Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Second Class, the Liberation Medal of the Second Class, and the Medal of Merit of the Red Star of the First Class.
Medal of Merit of the Red Star, First Class
He is an alternate member of the 9th, 10th and 11th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China.
Wu Zhong and Tian Tao took a group photo