Founding Major General - Liu Dehai

Former President of the 14th Research Institute of the Fourth Ministry of Machinery Industry (enjoys ministerial treatment).

　　

Liu Dehai is a native of Shangcheng, Henan. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1929 and joined the Communist Party of China in April 1930. During the agrarian revolutionary war, he successively served as a squad leader, platoon leader, company commander, battalion commander, and regimental commissioner in the Red 28th Army, the Red 25th Army, and the Red 15th Army, and participated in the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth anti-encirclement and suppression struggles.

　　During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as a commissioner of the 688th Regiment of the Fourth Brigade, the chief of the Security Section of the Taihang Second Column and the 115th Division, the deputy commander of the Northwest Lu Military Subdistrict, and the deputy political commissar and commander of the Lu Southwest Military Subdistrict of the Jiluyu Military Region.

　　During the Liberation War, he successively served as the commander of the Southwest Military Subdistrict of Jilu Yulu, the director of the Supply Department of the Jiluyu Military Region, and the chief of staff of the Plain Provincial Military Region of the Jiluyu Military Region, and participated in the Huaihai Campaign.

　　After the founding of New China, Liu Dehai successively served as chief of staff of the Pingyuan Provincial Military Region, principal of the Fifty Accelerated Middle School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, principal of the Beijing Military Region Cultural School, vice president of the Tenth Research Institute, head of the Central Supervision Group of the Fourth Machine Department, president of the Fourteenth Research Institute of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and president of the Fourteenth Research Institute of the Fourth Machine Department. He resolutely implemented the instructions of the party Central Committee, actively explored the army building work of our army from the wartime to the stage of peaceful construction, trained a large number of senior military cadres, gained effective experience in the construction of military academies, and made positive contributions to the modernization of our army and the expansion of the electronics industry. During his studies at the Yan'an Party School in 1943, Comrade Liu Dehai participated in the Seventh Congress of the Party, was awarded the rank of major general in 1955, and served as a member of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference.

　　Comrade Liu Dehai, due to ineffective medical treatment, died in Beijing on November 14, 2000 at the age of 93.