China's first female general

The first female general in China was Major General Li Zhen.

1September, 955, the China People's Liberation Army first implemented the rank system. At the awarding ceremony of Huairentang in Zhongnanhai, Li Zhen, a female Red Army, was promoted to the first female major general in China.

Li Zhen, 1908, was born in a peasant family in Odabashi Township, Liuyang County, Hunan Province. 1926 In the spring and summer, the torrent of the Great Revolution poured into Liuyang River. Li Zhen resolutely cut off his braid and joined the revolutionary ranks. 1927 joined the China * * * production party. The Liuyang River guerrillas fought against the enemy many times, and Li Zhen experienced the test of life and death. In order not to fall into the enemy's hands in the battle with the enemy, she resolutely chose to jump off a cliff, thus losing her fertility. But she is a great mother and has raised more than 20 orphans of martyrs and children of her comrades.

During the Long March of the Red Army, Li Zhen was the organization minister of the Sixth Red Army Corps and the deputy director of the organization department of the Second Red Army Corps. On the long revolutionary journey in the future, Li Zhen, a female general, left her footprints everywhere, whether in the liberation of the northwest or in the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea.

After the liberation of the whole country, Li Zhen successively served as Secretary-General of the Political Department of Chinese people's Volunteer Army, Minister of the Cadre Department of Air Defense Forces of the Military Commission, Deputy Procurator-General of the Military Procuratorate of the People's Liberation Army, and consultant of the Organization Department of the General Political Department. At the local level, she is also a member of the Executive Committee of the First and Second All-China Women's Federation, the Standing Committee of the Third and Fourth All-China Women's Federation, the Fifth the NPC Standing Committee and the Central Advisory Committee.

1March, 1990 1 1, the first female general in new China, fought for the party and the people for 64 years and finished her glorious life.