Song Renqiong

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Song Renqiong
宋任穷
Personal details
Born	11 July 1909 Liuyang, Hunan, China
Died	8 January 2005 (aged 95) Beijing, China
Awards	Order of Bayi (First Class Medal) Order of Independence and Freedom (First Class Medal) Order of Liberation (First Class Medal)
Military service
Branch/service	People's Liberation Army
Rank	General of People's Liberation Army

Song Renqiong (

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was the vice director of the political department of the 129th Division. Toward the end of the Chinese Civil War, he was the vice political commissar of the Northeastern Field Army.

After the establishment of the PRC in 1949, he was the secretary of the

He died aged 95, on 8 January 2005 in Beijing, following an illness. Though Song Renqiong had died before Zhao Ziyang, he had requested that his floral wreath and elegiac couplet appear in Zhao's funeral. His funeral was held on 15 January. The highest Chinese officials, including Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin, attended his funeral. The Chinese media reported Song as "an outstanding member of the Communist Party, a great Communist soldier, a remarkable proletarian revolutionary and a prominent leader of the party's political work."

See also

• List of officers of the People's Liberation Army

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Bartke, Wolfgang (2012) [1997]. "Biographies P-Z". Who was Who in the People's Republic of China: With more than 3100 Portraits. Vol. 2. Munich:
  ISBN 978-3-11-096823-1
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