Lai Chuanzhu

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Lai.
General
Lai Chuanzhu
赖传珠
Lai Chuanzhu
Political Commissar of the Shenyang Military Region
In office
October 1959 – December 1965
Preceded byZhou Huan [zh]
Succeeded byZeng Shaoshan
Political Commissar of the Beijing Military Region
In office
October 1958 – October 1959
Preceded byZhu Liangcai
Succeeded byLiao Hansheng
Personal details
Born(1910-04-03)April 3, 1910
Order of Bayi (First Class Medal)
Order of Independence and Freedom (First Class Medal)
Order of Liberation (China)
(First Class Medal)

Lai Chuanzhu (

Gan County, Jiangxi
.

Lai joined the

Jiangbei Headquarters Chief of Staff. After the establishment of PRC, he was the Thirteenth Corps, Beijing and Shenyang Military Region
's political commissar.

Biography

Ye Ting and others at the New Fourth Army Jiangbei Headquarters in 1939. From left: Ye Ting, Lai Chuanzhu, Luo Binghui [zh], Zhang Yunyi.

Early Revolutionary Years

After joining the Communist Youth League of China in November 1926, Lai went to Guidong County, Hunan to join the army under the command of Mao Zedong. Having ascended to key leadership position within the Fourth Army, he went on to participate in the Huangyang Boundary Battle in 1928.[1] As one of the divisional commanders of the New Fourth Army, he went on to attend the Gutian Congress. Lai suffered a facial wound during the First Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet in January 1930.[2]

From December 1931 onward, he was appointed as the 13th Red Army Political Department's Secretary-General and 37th division political commissar, participating in the Ganzhou Campaign.

Shanbei, he was made a deputy minister of the Soviet and concurrently was the political commissar for the region.[5]

Second Sino-Japanese War (1936-1945)

In November 1937 Lai was transferred to the

Jiangbei regions.[6] By October 1940, Lai was appointed as the central headquarters chief of staff. Following the New Fourth Army incident in 1941 and the consequent annihilation of the army, Lai was appointed as chief of staff to re-establish the New Fourth Army.[7][8]
Thereafter, Lai assisted other commanders (Chen Yi, Liu Shaoqi, Zhang Yunyi, Rao Shushi among others) at the Central Anti-Japanese Base Command which resisted Japanese occupation.

Chinese Civil War (1945-1949)

In October 1945, Lai was appointed as the Shandong Field Army's column political commissar. In September 1947, he took part in the

Liaoshen Campaign as the political commissar for the sixth column of the Southwest Army (later became a field army). During the campaign, Hong Yongsheng and him flanked and surrounded the Nationalist army group led by Liao Yaoxiang.[9] In November 1948, he was appointed as one of the Fourth Field Army's political commissar and led troops which besieged Beijing, forcing Fu Zuoyi to shift key troops to counter them.[10] Following the capture of Guangzhou in 14 October, Lai was appointed the Guangdong military region's first deputy political commissar.[11]

After the Establishment of the PRC

In December 1949, Lai and

Landing Operation on Hainan Island. In 1950, communist landing operations was conducted with forces equivalent to two armies albeit the absence of a navy and air force to support the troops landing in small wooden crafts. The landed forces surrounded Xue Yue's forces and captured Haikou. Xue Yue had no choice but to retreat to Taiwan, and the People's Liberation Army took control of the whole Hainan Peninsula.[12] This campaign was the first amphibious assault won by the PLA.[13]

In September 1950, Lai was made the deputy minister of the

Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China and the National People's Congress. On 24 December 1965, Lai Chuanzhu died in Shenyang, Liaoning.[15]

References

  1. ISBN 978-7-01-005416-2
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  2. ^ 赖传珠 [Lai Chuanzhu]. people.com.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 2015-03-10.
  3. ISBN 978-7-5065-5396-4
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  4. ^ Chen, Ronghua (1986). 中国革命史手册 [Handbook of Chinese Revolutionary History]. Central China Normal University Press. p. 448.
  5. ISBN 978-7-8017-0995-0
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  6. ^ 新四军江北指挥部在庐江岁月 [Jiangbei Headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Lu River]. Chaohu Daily (in Chinese). 2009-06-08. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  7. ISBN 978-7-01-000919-3
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  8. ISBN 7801373154
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  9. ISBN 978-7-8068-7898-9
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  10. ISBN 978-7-5033-1940-2
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  11. ISBN 978-7-5033-2252-5
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  12. ^ Peng, Qinglin (2010-10-18). 从解放战争到抗美援朝:毛主席选择邓华"放心" [From the Chinese Civil War to the Korean War: Chairman Mao Chooses Deng Hua to "Rest Assured"]. Hainan Daily. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
  13. ISBN 9787503512254
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  14. ISBN 7-209-02403-4
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  15. ISBN 978-7-5065-5031-4
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Military offices
Preceded by Political Commissar of the Beijing Military Region
1958–1959 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Political Commissar of the Shenyang Military Region
1959–1965 		Succeeded by
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