Political Commissar of the People's Liberation Army Navy
| Political Commissar of the People's Liberation Army Navy | |
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| 中国人民解放军海军政治委员 | |
 Naval Ensign of the People's Republic of China | |
Incumbent since October 2025Vacant | |
| Member of | Central Military Commission |
| Reports to | The Chairman |
| Seat | Beijing |
| Nominator | The Chairman |
| Appointer | The Chairman |
| Formation | 1957 |
| First holder | Su Zhenhua |
| Deputy | Ding Haichun Wang Dengping |
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| Simplified Chinese | 中国人民解放军海军政治委员 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中國人民解放軍海軍政治委員 | ||||||
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The Political Commissar of the People's Liberation Army Navy is the political head of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).
The commissar is in charge of building Chinese Communist Party organizations and directing political ideology. The political commissar holds a unique position in the PLAN. This post was created in the Sanwan Reorganization by Mao Zedong in 1927.
List of Political Commissars
| No. | Image | Name | Chinese name | Rank | Alma master | Term of Office | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Began | Ended | ||||||||
| 1 |  | Su Zhenhua | 苏振华 | Admiral (1955) | Counter-Japanese Military and Political University | February 1957 | June 1967 | ||
| 2 |  | Li Zuopeng | 李作鹏 | Vice Admiral (1955) | June 1967 | September 1971 | |||
| 3 | | Su Zhenhua | 苏振华 | Admiral (1955) | Counter-Japanese Military and Political University | March 1973 | February 1979 | ||
| 4 |  | Ye Fei | 叶飞 | Admiral (1955) | Whampoa Military Academy | February 1979 | January 1980 | ||
| 5 |  | Li Yaowen | 李耀文 | Admiral (1988) | People's Liberation Army Advanced Military Academy | January 1980 | April 1990 | ||
| 6 | Wei Jinshan | 魏金山 | Vice Admiral (1988) | April 1990 | November 1993 | ||||
| 7 | Zhou Kunren | 周坤仁 | Admiral (2000) | PLA Nanjing Institute of Politics | November 1993 | July 1995 | |||
| 8 | Yang Huaiqing | 杨怀庆 | Rear admiral (1990) Vice admiral (1994) Admiral (2000) | Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party | July 1995 | June 2003 | |||
| 9 | Hu Yanlin | 胡彦林 | Rear admiral (1990) Vice admiral (1995) Admiral (2004) | PLA National Defence University | June 2003 | July 2008 | |||
| 10 | Liu Xiaojiang | 刘晓江 | Admiral (2011) | Heilongjiang University | July 2008 | December 2014 | [1] | ||
| 11 | Miao Hua | 苗华 | Admiral (2015) | National University of Defense Technology | December 2014 | September 2017 | [2] | ||
| 12 | Qin Shengxiang | 秦生祥 | Admiral (2019) | September 2017 | January 2022 | ||||
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Yuan Huazhi | 袁华智 | Admiral (2022) | January 2022 | October 2025 | [3] | ||
References
- ↑ 海军政委刘晓江：海军参与搜救绝非秀肌肉. Phoenix Television (in Chinese). 2014-03-13.
- ↑ 外媒关注苗华任中国海军政委 曾在福建任职20年. Sina (in Chinese). 2014-12-30.
- ↑ Mei Changwei (梅常伟) (21 January 2022). 中央军委举行晋升上将军衔警衔仪式 习近平颁发命令状并向晋衔的军官警官表示祝贺. news.cn (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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Further reading
- Ma Junjie (2014-10-01). 《档案里的中国海军历史》 [The History of PLA Navy in Archives] (in Chinese). jinan, Shandong: Shandong Pictorial Publishing House. ISBN 9787547413555.
- Gao Xiaoxing; Weng Saifei; Zhou Dehua (2012-10-01). The PLA Navy. Beijing: China Intercontinental Press. ISBN 9787508522258.
- Li Qiong (2015). 《海上长城：中国人民解放军海军成立六十周年庆典》 [Great Wall in the Sea: 60 Anniversary of the Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy] (in Chinese). Changchun, Jilin: Jilin Publishing Group. ISBN 9787546318264.
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