Du Hengyan

杜恒燕
Deputy Director of Political Work Department
Incumbent
Assumed office 2012
Personal details
Born	1951 (age 64–65) Longkou, Shandong, China
Political party	Communist Party of China
Military service
Allegiance	China
Service/branch	People's Liberation Army
Years of service	1969 − present
Rank	General
Commands	Political Work Department

Du Hengyan (Chinese: 杜恒岩; pinyin: Dù Héngyán; born July 1951) is a general (Shang Jiang) in the People's Liberation Army and the current Deputy Director of the Political work Department.

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]

References

1. "中央军委举行晋升上将军衔警衔仪式". Defence Ministry of the People's Republic. Retrieved 2012-07-31.