Du Hengyan

Political Commissar of the Jinan Military RegionIn office
July 2010 – January 2016Preceded byLiu DongdongSucceeded byPosition revokedPolitical Commissar of the 65th Group ArmyIn office
June 2000 – December 2005Preceded byZhang Qiuxiang [zh]Succeeded byGao Donglu [zh] Personal detailsBorn1951 (age 72–73)
Longkou, Shandong, ChinaPolitical partyChinese Communist PartyAlma materPLA National Defence University
National University of Defense Technology
Central Party School of the Chinese Communist PartyMilitary serviceAllegiance People's Republic of ChinaBranch/service People's Liberation Army Ground ForceYears of service1969–2017Rank GeneralChinese nameSimplified Chinese杜恒岩Traditional Chinese杜恆岩

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Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Du Hengyan

Du Hengyan (Chinese: 杜恒岩; pinyin: Dù Héngyán; born July 1951) is a retired general (shangjiang) in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He served as deputy director of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission.

Biography

Du joined the PLA as a serviceman in 1969, and joined the Chinese Communist Party a year later. Wei served in the Shenyang Military Region, then the Beijing Military Region. In 1996 he became the deputy political commissar of the 28th Group Army. In 1998 he was awarded the rank of major general. In 2000 he became political commissar of the 65th Group Army. In 2005 he became head of discipline and deputy political commissar of the Jinan Military Region. In 2007 he was promoted to lieutenant general. In 2010 he became political commissar of the Jinan Military Region. He attained the rank of General in July 2012, also he was made deputy director of the Political Work Department in the same year. He was a member of the 17th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and a member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.^[1]

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Military offices
Preceded by Zhang Qiuxiang [zh]	Political Commissar of the 65th Group Army 2000–2005	Succeeded by Gao Donglu [zh]
Preceded by Liu Dongdong	Political Commissar of the Jinan Military Region 2010–2016	Succeeded by Position revoked