Nie Rongzhen

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Nie.
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Hanyu Pinyin
Niè Róngzhēn
Wade–GilesNieh Jung-chen
Nie Rongzhen in 1940

Nie Rongzhen (

People's Republic of China. He died as the last People's Liberation Army
(PLA) marshal.

Biography

Nie was born in

Jiangjin County in Sichuan (now part of Chongqing municipality), the cosmopolitan and well-educated son of a wealthy family. In his 20s, Nie applied to the Université du Travail (University of Labour) in Charleroi, Belgium
, with a scholarship from the Socialist Party, and was thus able to study science in Charleroi.

Political leanings

Zhou Enlai spent a night in Charleroi and met with Nie. Nie agreed to join the group of Chinese students in France on a work-study program, in which he studied engineering and became a protégé of Zhou Enlai. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1923.

A graduate of the

Whampoa Academy, Nie spent his early career first as a political officer in Whampoa's Political Department, where Zhou served as the Deputy Director, and in the Chinese Red Army
.

World War II

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was first assigned as the deputy division commander of the 115th division of the Eighth Route Army, with the commander being Lin Biao, and in the late 1930s he was given a field command close to Yan Xishan's Shanxi stronghold.

Civil War

In the

Chinese nuclear weapons program
.

He established the Bayi School in 1947.[1]

Chinese nuclear programme

By spring 1969, "The whole Chinese nuclear weapons program [was] under the authority of Nieh Jungh-chen [Rongzhen], the head of the

Seventh Ministry for Machine Building."[2]

Purge and rehabilitation

He was purged during the Cultural Revolution, but was later rehabilitated and became vice chairman of the Central Military Committee, which controlled the nation's armed forces, and also became the vice chairman of the National People's Congress. He retired in 1987 and died in Beijing.

Personal life

Nie had a daughter with Zhang Ruihua (张瑞华) in 1930, named Nie Li. Li and Zhang Ruihua were imprisoned by the Kuomintang in 1934 and reunited with Nie in 1945. Nie Li was the first woman to be a lieutenant general in the PLA.[3]

See also

  • List of officers of the People's Liberation Army
  • Historical Museum of French-Chinese Friendship

References

Citations

  1. ^ Wang, Jianfen; Chen, Ziyan (2018-06-01). "What we can learn from Xi's childhood". China Daily. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  2. The Toronto Star. August 9, 1969. p. 10.. See also: Francis James (June 15, 1969). The Sunday Times. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help
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  3. ^ 中科院院士丁衡高与妻子聂力中将简介 [Introduction to the Chinese Academy of Sciences scholar Ding Henggao and his wife Middle General Nie Li]. Meili de Shenhua (in Chinese (China)). 10 April 2008. Retrieved 31 March 2017.

Sources

Government offices
Preceded by
Mayor of Beijing

1949–1951 		Succeeded by
New title Director of
State Science and Technology Commission

1958–1970 		Next:
Fang Yi
Military offices
Preceded by
People's Revolutionary Military Commission

(acting)
1950–1954 		Succeeded by
Chief of the General Staff of the PLA
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