In 1981, ** was elected chairman of the Military Commission, becoming the third person to hold the post after *** and ***. Although he did not come from a military background, he showed extraordinary military talent. In Liu Deng's army, he served as a political commissar and assisted *** in achieving major victories in the Central Plains, including famous battles such as the thousand-mile leap into Dabie Mountain. He also served as the secretary of the General Front Committee of the Huaihai Campaign, leading the founding generals such as ** and Su Yu, and finally consolidated the war situation in the Central Plains. Because of his revolutionary experience and contributions, he was fully qualified to be awarded the rank of marshal, but since he had already held an important position in **, he took the initiative to humbly concede this honor like ***. In the era, he served as vice chairman of the Military Commission and chief of the General Staff, and was praised as "rare talent". During his tenure as chairman of the Central Military Commission, he carried out major reforms in the armed forces, reduced the number of troops by one million, retained the seven major military regions, made the army lean and improved its combat effectiveness, and moved towards modernization. Until 1989, when he was 85 years old, he resigned from the post of chairman of the Military Commission. There are only two vice chairmen of the new Military Commission, both of whom are the founding fathers of the Republic, both of whom were veterans of the Long March, and both of them held positions at the national level.
Among them, Yang Shangkun, the first vice chairman, is from Shuangjiang, Chongqing, and was born in a revolutionary family, and 6 of the 11 brothers and sisters in the family are members of the middle school, which can be said to have a deep revolutionary tradition. Among them, Yang Shangkun's fourth brother, Yang Yangong, joined the Communist Party in 1925 and was one of the earliest party members in Sichuan and one of the revolutionary pioneers in Sichuan. He led the Lushun Uprising together with generals such as Mr. Zhu, Mr. Chen, and **, but unfortunately was captured and brutally killed by the enemy in 1927 at the age of 29. Yang Shangkun later went to the **Soviet District to serve, and when he met *** for the first time, ** also specially asked about Yang Yangong's situation, and Yang Shangkun replied that he was his fourth brother. In the ** Soviet area, Yang Shangkun served as the political commissar of the Red Third Army Corps, cooperated tacitly with the Red Third Army Corps, and led the Red Third Army Corps to participate in many important battles and embarked on the road of the Long March. Yang Shangkun and the political commissar of the Red First Army are known as outstanding figures. In the later war years, Yang Shangkun worked beside *** for a long time, and successively served as the secretary general of the ** Military Commission and the director of the ** General Office. Although he was not awarded a military rank, he participated in the leadership of the Military Commission at an early age and showed outstanding military talent. Two important military leaders of the period, Yang Shangkun and ***, played a key role in the squadron.
Yang Shangkun served as the vice chairman of the Military Commission under the leadership of the military commission for a long time, and was one of the youngest veterans at that time, responsible for handling a large number of daily affairs of the military commission, and became the right-hand man of the military commission. Even after stepping down as chairman of the Military Commission, Yang Shangkun continued to serve as vice chairman of the Military Commission. In 1988, Yang Shangkun was elected as the leader of the Zhengguo level, but died in 1998 at the age of 92. Another deputy chairman of the Military Commission, ***, is also an old Red Army. He joined the Red Army at the age of 15, and at the age of 19, he was honorably admitted to the party and became the general of the Red 25th Army, in the same unit as the whirlwind commander, General Han Xianchu. is different from Han Xianchu, ** served as a section chief in the military department. After the full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the secretary and director of the 129th Division Headquarters, and personally escorted the political commissar to the 129th Division. This is also the first time I have seen *** during a trip, ** because I don't have a penny on my body and worry about eating. However, instead of being angry, ** generously invited *** to dine together. **But let *** take the guards to eat, and he went to the village chief to arrange accommodation. In the early morning of the next day, ** took great pains to find a few horses, and finally escorted *** to the division headquarters safely.
Since then, he has been working under the leadership of ***, and during the Liberation War, he participated in the thousand-mile leap into Dabie Mountain, and spent the most arduous years of the war. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he entered the naval system and served as deputy chief of staff of the Navy, deputy director of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, deputy chief of general staff, and commander of the Navy, and finally was promoted to general in 1988 and became a senior general. ** One of the founding generals of our country, and the first founding general to serve as vice chairman of the Military Commission. In 1992, he continued to serve as vice chairman of the Military Commission and became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, and was eventually promoted to the rank of Zhengguo. The hard-working founding general lived a long and advanced life, dying in 2011 at the age of 95.