Background
He was born about 1906 in Hopeh .
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Wang Shang-jung
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Education
He studied in Moscow, probably in the 1920's, at either a military academy or Sun Yat-sen University.
Career
By the mid-1930's Wang was participating in the military campaigns in the Hunan-Hupeh- Szechwan-Kweichow Soviet, led by Ho Lung’s Second Front Army. Wang presumably made the Long March with Ho’s forces, which arrived in north Shensi in 1936, about one year after Mao had arrived there.
In the autumn of 1937, Wang became a deputy commander of the 359th Brigade of Ho Lung’s 120th Division, one of the three divisions of the Communists’ Eighth Route Army. He was later a deputy commander of the 120th Division. By 1940, he had become commander of the Second Independent Brigade of the 120th Division and concurrently commander of the Fourth Military Sub-district of the Northwest Shansi Military District. Guerrilla units of the Eighth Route Army held most of Shansi during the Sino-Japanese War. By 1946, Wang had transferred to the Fifth Military Sub-district in the Shansi-Suiyuan Military Region, where he led the First Independent Brigade in Chang Tsung-hsun’s 358th Brigade.
In 1949 Wang was an army deputy commander under P'eng Te-huai First Field Army, which had jurisdiction over Tsinghai, Sinkiang, and Kansu provinces. In January 1950，when the Communists established their provincial administration for Tsinghai, Wang became a member of the Tsinghai Provincial People's Government, and from August 1950 to March 1953 he was a vice-chairman of its Finance and Economics Committee.
In the latter half of 1952 Wang was transferred to Peking to assume new responsibilities. By August 1952 he was a deputy director of the Operations Department of the PLA, then under the jurisdiction of the People’s Revolutionary Military Council (PRMC). The PRMC was abolished in the fall of 1954 at which time the entire military establishment underwent many organizational changes. Wang, however, retained his position, only now subordinate to the PLA General Staff. By May 1959 he was director of the Operations Department, a position he apparently still holds.
When personal military ranks were established in 1955, Wang was made a lieutenant- general. Simultaneously, he was awarded two of the three highest military honors, the Order of August First for service in the period 1927 to 1937, and the Order of Liberation for the 1945-1950 period. It is not clear why he failed to receive the award for service during the Si noJapanese War, especially since he is known to have been active during that period.
Politics
Wang was elected an alternate member of the Party Central Committee in May 1958 at the second session of the Eighth National Congress. A year later he accompanied the Panchen Lama on the latter’s visit to the Ministry of Defense and the PLA Headquarters. During the visit Wang gave an account of how the PLA had quickly ended the Tibetan rebellion. In July 1960 he was in Chengtu, the Szechwan capital, attending a memorial service for a former colleague in Tsinghai, General Ho Ping-yen. This report, placing Wang in southwest China, coupled with the paucity of information on him since 1959 suggests that he may have some special military assignment in connection with Tibet and the Sino-Indian border.
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