Liu Lei

Background

Liu Lei was born in February 1957 in Liaocheng, Shandong province.

Education

In the 1990s, he graduated from the joint combat commander training program of the PLA National Defence University. He also studied at the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and holds a doctoral degree.

Career

He has been Political Commissar of the Lanzhou Military Region since December 2014, and formerly served as Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Military District. He joined the PLA in 1973 at age 16. Liu has served in the Lanzhou Military Region for more than 40 years, including many years in the 21st Group Army.

In June 2003, he became Director of the Political Department of the Nanjiang (Southern Xinjiang) Military District.

In January 2007, he became Political Commissar of the 21st Army. Major General Li Wei (李伟) succeeded Liu as Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Doctor of Medicine.

Achievements

• He attained the rank of major general in July 2004. Liu attained the rank of lieutenant general (zhong jiang) in July 2014, and was promoted to Political Commissar of the Lanzhou Military Region in December 2014, replacing Miao Hua, who had been promoted to Political Commissar of the PLA Navy.

Politics

He was appointed Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Military District, which is under the Lanzhou Magnetic Resonance, in July 2013. In November 2013, six days after a suicide attack on Beijing"s Tiananmen Square, thought to be perpetrated by Uyghurs from Xinjiang, Commander Peng Yong of the Xinjiang Doctor of Medicine was removed from the Regional Party Standing Committee, the Communist Party governing body in Xinjiang, and replaced by Liu Lei.