Lee was the only admiral among the first 17 admirals to be awarded the title
Li Yaowen was one of the five generals who walked out of Shandong Rongcheng (the other four were General Wang Maorun, former political commissar of the National Defense University, General Jiang Futang, former political commissar of the Shenyang Military Region, General Liu Yuejun, former commander of the Eastern Theater, and General Wang Ning, former commander of the Armed Police Force). A county-level city with a population of only 670,000 people can do more than many generals from many provinces, which is indeed not easy. In addition, Rongcheng also produced 10 lieutenant generals, including Xiang Xiaoshu, Liu Zhimin, Sun Jinghua, Zhang Xusan, Zhang Xudeng, Chen Peimin, and Wang Yongguo. It is a veritable general county.
Lee Yiu-man is one of the best. He was the only founding general among them, and was awarded the rank of major general in September 1955, and was awarded the Order of Independence and Freedom, Second Class, and the Liberation Medal, First Class. Speaking of which, his seniority is relatively late among the founding generals, and he was born on May 1, 1918 in a village in Chengshan District, Rongcheng County. He joined the Communist Party of China in April 1937 and participated in revolutionary work. In August 1937, he was a member of the Propaganda Committee of the Provisional Committee of Rongcheng County in Shandong Province, a member of the Rongcheng Special Branch of the Communist Party of China (a member of the Rongcheng Underground Provisional County Committee), participated in the launching of the anti-Japanese armed uprising of the Buliu Township School and joined the Shandong Anti-Japanese Armed Forces. In January 1938, the department was reorganized into the Shandong People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army. The Shandong People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army is a revolutionary armed force active in the Shandong region under the leadership of the Communist Party. Not many people were given the rank of general in the 55 years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and Li Yaowen was one of them.
The heroic founding major general Li Yaowen
In the Shandong People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, he grew up rapidly, and in January 1938 he was the head of the education unit of the Political Department of the 3rd Army. In May, he became the director of the Political Office of the 3rd Army. In September 1938, the unit was reorganized into the Shandong Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Group of the Eighth Route Army, and he served as the political commissar of the 21st Brigade of the 5th Detachment and the political commissar of the 62nd Regiment, and later served as the deputy director of the Political Department of the 5th Detachment of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army, the chief of the Organization Section of the Political Department of the Detachment, the deputy director of the Political Department of the Brigade, and the deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the 4th Military Subdistrict of the Luzhong Military Region. He participated in the 5-month anti-surrender campaign in Jiaodong and many anti-"encirclement and suppression" battles, participated in the opening up of anti-Japanese base areas in the Yishan area and led the struggle to create anti-Japanese base areas in Juxian County, Yishui and Anqiu areas.
During the Liberation War, he successively served as the political commissar of the 4th Brigade of the Shandong Military Region, the political commissar of the 9th Division of the Luzhong Military Region, the political commissar of the 23rd Division of the 8th Column of the East China Field Army, and the deputy director of the Political Department of the 8th Column of Huaye. From July 1948 to February 1949, he was the director of the Political Department of the 8th Column of the East China Field Army. In February 1949, he was appointed director of the Political Department of the 26th Army of the Third Field Army. In September 1949, he was appointed Political Commissar of the 26th Army of the Third Field Army and Secretary of the Military Party Committee. He led his troops to participate in the battles of Linqu, Lunan, Laiwu, Yudong, Menglianggu, Huaihai, Dujiang, and Shanghai.
Zhang Renchu (left), commander of the 26th Army during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and Li Yaowen, political commissar. Zhang Renchu was a founding lieutenant general.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in November 1950, serving as the political commissar and secretary of the Party Committee of the 26th Army of the 9th Corps of the Chinese Volunteer Army, and participated in the 2nd, 4th and 5th Battles and the Summer and Autumn Defense Campaign of 1951. He returned to China in June 1952. Later, he served as the director of the Political Department of the Shandong Provincial Military Region. In May 1955, he was appointed director of the Political Department of the Jinan Military Region and a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Military Region. He became a senior general who grew up to be a deputy of the Grand Military Region earlier among the founding major generals. During this time, he did something very meaningful. In March 1956, as one of the members of the "Editorial Committee of the Summary of political work experience of the Chinese Volunteer Army in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea", he participated in the compilation of the "Draft Summary of Experiences on Several Major Issues in the Political Work of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea" (which lasted for more than two years), summing up the gains and losses of the political work of the Volunteer Army.
In 1958, Chairman Mao met with the leaders of the Jinan Military Region in Jinan from left: Yang Dezhi, commander of the Jinan Military Region, in the center, and Li Yaowen, director of the Political Department of the Jinan Military Region, on the right
In the autumn of 1958, Major General Li Yaowen, who was already the director of the Political Department of the Jinan Military Region, and General Yang Dezhi, commander of the Jinan Military Region, came to xuzhou to serve as soldiers in the 6th Company of a regiment. Two years later, the Central Military Commission held an enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission in Guangzhou, and Chairman Mao asked about his enlistment in the next company. Li Yaowen replied: "Living as a soldier for one month, eating, living, working, operating, and entertaining with soldiers has eliminated the estrangement between officers and soldiers, brought officers and soldiers closer, and maintained the true colors of an ordinary soldier." Chairman Mao praised: "It is not easy for a general to become a soldier! All right! This is a good practice and a development for the army in the new historical period. In September 1962, he entered the Accelerated Department of the Higher Plaster Military Academy of the People's Liberation Army. In October 1965, he was appointed deputy political commissar and director of the political department of the Jinan Military Region.
Li Yaowen (right) was the commander of the lower company, yang Dezhi
In June 1970, he left the army where he had worked for more than 20 years and came to the diplomatic front as a military representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and deputy minister of foreign affairs. This is the general personally ordered by Premier Zhou Enlai. This shows his weight in the minds of the high-level. In April 1972, he was appointed Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania and also served as China's Envoy to Madagascar. In February 1976, he was appointed Chinese ambassador to the Soviet Union, but for some reason did not arrive. But it can also be seen how much he was valued, after all, the Soviet Union was a pivotal superpower at the time. Before returning to the army in April 1977, he worked on the diplomatic front for nearly seven years, including more than four years as a "general ambassador".
From right to left are Liu Huaqing, Li Yaowen and Zhang Lianzhong
In April 1977, he became the political commissar of the Science and Technology Commission for National Defense and became a general of the Chia Tai Military Region. From August of the same year to September 1982, he was a member of the Central Military Commission. In October 1980, he served as political commissar of the Navy until April 1990, a 10-year-long position, the longest serving of any Navy political commissar. During this period, he partnered with Ye Fei, Liu Huaqing and Zhang Lianzhong as three commanders. During this time, he and the new naval commander Zhang Lianzhong assisted Liu Huaqing in commanding the Battle of Nansha in March 1988. In the course of the battle, Li Yaowen ate and lived in the naval command post, and carried out full command until the end of the battle, defending the sovereignty of Nansha. This battle laid the foundation for my historical position in the waters of the Nansha Sea.
He was awarded the rank of admiral in September 1988, becoming the only admiral among the 17 senior officers who were awarded the rank of admiral at the time. He retired from active duty in April 1990 and retired in July 1998. In 1987, he was elected as a member of the Central Advisory Committee. In July 1998, he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Red Star, First Class. He died in Beijing on April 10, 2018, at the age of 100.
Just as the so-called tiger father has no dog, Li Yaowen had a son and a daughter who later became a general. It is worth mentioning that in our army, there are many father-son generals, but there are not many father-daughter generals, and Li Yaowen and his daughter Li Yanyan are one of them.
Major General Li Xiaojun
Major General Li Xiaojun, born in May 1945, joined the army in 1968 and joined the Party in April 1970. Graduated from the Basic Department of the National Defense University, with a university degree. professor. He successively served as an army soldier, squad leader, platoon leader, training staff officer of tank regiment headquarters, tank company commander, tank battalion commander, tank regiment chief of staff, director of the armored corps of the group army, and commander of the tank brigade of the group army. In February 1978, he studied at the People's Liberation Army Armored Corps Academy. After graduating in August 1979, he stayed on to teach at the school and served as a deputy division instructor in the Military Teaching and Research Department of the Department of Command and Management. After graduating in 1990, he successively served as the director of the Arms Department of the General Staff Department, the vice president of the Armored Forces College, the deputy director of the General Staff Department and the director of the Armored Forces Bureau, the dean of the Armored Corps Command College, and the vice president, political commissar and dean of the Shijiazhuang Army Command College. He retired in December 2005. He was a well-known armored corps expert in the military and was named a professor in December 1998. He has presided over the development demonstration of the third generation of tanks of our army, presided over the decision-making of the 88C (96), 88A, and 63A tank programs, and the design and project establishment of tanks in the construction of digital troops. He has published 9 papers in important journals at home and abroad, published 3 monographs, and won 6 scientific research achievement awards. Among them, the "Armored Corps Combat Command" compiled by him won the first prize of the whole army's high-quality textbook, and the "Research on the Development of the Third Generation Main Battle Tank" won the first prize of military scientific research and the third prize of the army's scientific and technological progress. He was promoted to the rank of major general in July 1996. Rong Li third class merit 2 times.
Major General Li Yanyan
Major General Li Yanyan, born in February 1955, is 10 years younger than Li Xiaojun. He joined the army in December 1969 as a soldier. After graduation,Chinese he successively served as an officer, staff officer, deputy section chief, and section chief of the third department of the General Staff Department, a researcher and deputy director of the Political Research Office of the General Office of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, a deputy director and director of a certain bureau of the Headquarters of the General Armament Department, and a deputy chief of staff (deputy military post) of the General Armament Department. He was promoted to the rank of major general in July 2010. He retired in 2013.