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Zhao Keming
Zhao Keming
赵可铭
Political Commissar of the PLA National Defence University
	In office; July 2001 – September 2007
Preceded by	Wang Maorun
Succeeded by	Tong Shiping
Personal details
Born	October 1942 (age 82); Wuhan, Hubei, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Shantou Education College
Military service
Allegiance	People's Republic of China
Branch/service	People's Liberation Army Ground Force
Years of service	1961–2007
Rank	General
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	赵可铭
Traditional Chinese	趙可銘
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhào Kěmíng

Biography

Zhao was born in Wuhan, Hubei, in October 1942. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1961, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the following year. He became a reporter of the People's Liberation Army Daily in 1980, and was despatched to the Guangzhou Military Region in August 1985. He served as deputy head and then head of the Propaganda Division of the People's Liberation Army General Political Department in May 1988. He was appointed political commissar of the 47th Group Army in February 1995. In January 1996, he became deputy political commissar of the PLA National Defence University, rising to political commissar in July 2001. In March 2008, he took office as vice chairperson of the National People's Congress Financial and Economic Affairs Committee.

He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in 1988, lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in 1998, and general (shangjiang) in 2004.^[2]

^ 中共第十六届中央委员、中纪委名单 [List of members of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Central Commission for Discipline Inspection]. chinaaffairs.org (in Chinese). 14 November 2002. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
^ Xu Qian (徐倩); Chang Ye (常烨) (21 May 2015). 两岸老将军相聚北京共话抗战历史. xinhuanet.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 15 June 2022.