Du Hengyan

Du Hengyan
杜恒岩
Deputy Director of Political Work Department
In office 2012–2017
Personal details
Born	1951 (age 66–67) Longkou, Shandong, China
Political party	Communist Party of China
Military service
Allegiance	China
Service/branch	People's Liberation Army
Years of service	1969−2017
Rank	General

Du Hengyan (Chinese: 杜恒岩; pinyin: Dù Héngyán; born July 1951) is a retired general (shang jiang) 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 Communist Party of China 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 same year. He was a member of the 17th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and a member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.^[1]

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