Li Guangjin

Li Guangjin (born April 3, 1950, Chinese: 李光金), born in Baisha Village, Yangye Town, Ezhou City, Hubei Province, is a Chinese military general.^[1]

Biography

Li Guangjin enlisted in the People's Liberation Army in December 1970 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in July 1972. He holds a graduate degree from the Party School of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and holds the military rank of major general in July 2002.^[1]

Li began his education in 1957 at Sanjia Elementary School and graduated from Yanzi Middle School in Echeng County. Li's military career started on December 26, 1970, in the 486th Regiment, 162nd Division, 54th Army, where he held positions including soldier, deputy squad leader, squad leader, platoon leader, company instructor, deputy battalion political instructor, and battalion political instructor. During the Sino-Vietnamese War from February to March 1979, he served as acting political instructor due to the injury of the incumbent officer. Beginning in 1983, he successively served as Deputy Political Commissar and later Political Commissar of the 486th Regiment. He went on to become director of the political department, deputy political commissar, and then political commissar of the 160th Division, and later political commissar of the 127th Division.^[2]

While serving as the political commissar of the 127th Division from 1995 to 1999, Li led the division in August 1998 in flood relief efforts in Hubei Province during the catastrophic Yangtze River floods, making critical contributions to local disaster response and recovery.^[3]

In August 1999, he became director of the political department of the 54th Group Army, and in March 2001, deputy political commissar of the 20th Group Army. In September 2004, Li was appointed political commissar and party secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Military District. A year later, he assumed the same roles in the Fujian Provincial Military District, and in November 2006, he was additionally appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.^[4]|^[5] From May 2009 to July 2010, he served as political commissar and Party Secretary of the Shanghai Garrison Command, concluding his military service upon retirement.^[6]