Fan Changlong

Fan Changlong
范长龙


Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 March 2013 (State Commission) 4 November 2012 (Party Commission) Serving with Xu Qiliang
Chairman	Xi Jinping
Personal details
Born	May 1947 Dandong, Liaoning, Republic of China
Political party	Communist Party of China
Alma mater	People's Liberation Army Xuanhua Artillery Academy People's Liberation Army Military Academy Beijing University of Science and Technology
Military service
Allegiance	China
Service/branch	People's Liberation Army
Years of service	?–present
Rank	General
Battles/wars	Balochistan conflict

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Fan.

Fan Changlong (Chinese: 范长龙; pinyin: Fàn Chánglóng; born 1947) is a general in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China. He is a Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and formerly served as commander of the Jinan Military Region.

Fan was born in Dandong, Liaoning Province. He joined the PLA and the Communist Party of China in 1969. He became a major general in 1995, a lieutenant general in 2002, and general on July 15, 2008.^[1] Fan has been an alternate member of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and a full member of the 17th Central Committee. In 2012, ahead of the 18th Party Congress, he was appointed Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission.

In mid-April 2016, he paid a visit to the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, according to the country’s Ministry of National Defense, which reported the visit on Friday 15 April 2016. Gen. Fan Changlong was said to have been the highest-ranking People’s Liberation Army officer ever to visit the Spratly Islands. General Fan led a delegation to the “relevant Nansha Islands to offer good wishes to officers and personnel stationed there, and also to understand the construction of facilities on the islands,” said a brief statement from the Ministry of National Defense. His tour appeared intended to show China’s determination to ward off any challenges to its claims over the islands, which are also the subject of claims by the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei and Taiwan.^[2]

References

18th Politburo of the Communist Party of China (2012 – 2017)

Xi Jinping Ma Kai Wang Qishan Wang Huning Liu Yunshan Liu Yandong Liu Qibao Xu Qiliang Sun Chunlan Sun Zhengcai Li Keqiang Li Jianguo Li Yuanchao Wang Yang Zhang Chunxian Zhang Gaoli Zhang Dejiang Fan Changlong Meng Jianzhu Zhao Leji Hu Chunhua Yu Zhengsheng Li Zhanshu Guo Jinlong Han Zheng

Sequenced in surname stroke order

Generals (shang jiang) of the People's Republic of China in active service

Army	Fan Changlong Chang Wanquan Fang Fenghui Zhang Yang Zhao Keshi Zhang Youxia Wang Hongyao Qi Jianguo Wang Jianping Wang Guanzhong Du Jincai Jia Ting'an Wu Changde Yin Fanglong Zhang Shibo Xu Yaoyuan Wang Jiaocheng Chu Yimin Song Puxuan Liu Fulian Liu Yuejun Zhao Zongqi Du Hengyan Cai Yingting Zheng Weiping Xu Fenlin Wei Liang Li Zuocheng Zhu Fuxi

Navy*	Wu Shengli Sun Jianguo Miao Hua

Air Force	Xu Qiliang Ma Xiaotian Liu Yazhou Yi Xiaoguang

Rocket Force	Wei Fenghe

Armed Police	Wang Ning Sun Sijing

Although navy shang jiang* is officially translated as "admiral", there is no distinction between "general" and "admiral" in Chinese.

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