Zhu Dunfa

Zhu Dunfa was a general of the People's Liberation Army. He was a delegate to the 6th and 7th National People's Congress, and a member of the 14th [Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party].

Biography

Zhu was born in Pei County, Jiangsu, on 28 December 1927. He enlisted in the Eighth Route Army in 1939, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1945.
During the Chinese Civil War, he served in the war and engaged in the, the Huaihai campaign, and the Yangtze River Crossing campaign.
In 1953, he was assigned North Korea with the 16th Group Army and fought under Peng Dehuai at the Korean War. He returned to China in 1958. In 1985, he was made deputy commander of Shenyang Military Region. In April 1990, he was promoted to commander of Guangzhou Military Region, he remained in that position until October 1992, when he was commissioned as president of PLA [National Defence University].
On 21 July 2021, he died from an illness in Beijing, at the age of 93.
He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in 1988 and general in 1993.