Bai Lü

Bai Lü is a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army of China. He was a member of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He was a representative of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography

Bai was born in Ying County, Shanxi, in September 1961. After resumption of college entrance examination in 1979, he entered Shanxi University, majoring in philosophy.
He joined the Chinese Communist Party in August 1983, and enlisted in the People's Liberation Army in February 1984. He served in the Shanxi Military District and the Beijing Military Region from 1984 to 1993, and the Nanjing Military Region from 1993 to 2005. He was made political commissar of the 1st Division of the 1st Group Army in August 2005. In April 2008, he was assigned as director of Political Department of the 12th Group Army, and was elevated to political commissar in February 2011. He was recalled to the original 1st Group Army as political commissar in January 2013, succeeding. In July 2015, he was given the position of deputy political commissar of the Chengdu Military Region.
He was commissioned as political commissar of the Southern Theater Command Ground Force in February 2016, concurrently serving as deputy political commissar of the Southern Theater Command. He was designated by the Central Military Commission in December 2020 to replace Fang Xiang as political commissar of the PLA Academy of Military Science.
He was promoted to the rank of major general in July 2009 and lieutenant general in July 2016.