Huang graduated from the department of missile engineering of the PLA Institute of Military Engineering in Harbin. He was the vice political commissar of the Liaoning provincial military region. In April 1999, Huang was appointed director of the political department of PLA National Defense University. He was elevated to political commissar of the University in January 2003. He was appointed to his present post as political commissar of the Shenyang Military Region in 2005. He attained the rank of lieutenant general in 2004, and general on July 15, 2008. [1]
