Qi Zhengjun

Qi Zhengjun was a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army of China.

Biography

Qi was born in Wan County, Zhili, in January 1924. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938, and enlisted in the Eighth Route Army in 1941. He mainly served in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and participated in the Pingjin campaign during the Chinese Civil War.
In 1950 in the Korean War, he was assigned to the North Korea as chief of the Operation Section of a division of the People's Volunteer Army. After the war, he successively served in the PLA Academy of Military Sciences, the Nanjing Military Region, the Nanjing Senior Army School, and the Army Command College of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He attained the rank of lieutenant general in 1988.
Qi died in Nanjing on 30 November 2024, at the age of 100.