He Lei

He Lei is a lieutenant general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Biography

He was born in Luoyang, Henan, in June 1955, to a military family, while his ancestral home in Tongjiang County, Sichuan Province. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army in 1968, when he served in the military in Beijing [Military Region]. At the end of 1990, he was transferred to the PLA Academy of Military Science, the PLA's highest-level research institute and center of military science. In July 2013 he was appointed deputy commander of the Lanzhou Military Region. Five months later, he became vice-president of the PLA Academy of Military Science.
He was promoted to the rank of major general in July 2009 and lieutenant general in July 2014.
He was a delegate to the 13th National People's Congress and a delegate to 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.