Yu Zhongfu

Background

Yu Zhongfu was born in July 1956 in Laiyang, Shandong Province.

Career

Having served in the PLAAF for more than 40 years, he was appointed Political Commissar of the PLAAF in July 2015. He joined the People"s Liberation Army in 1974, initially serving in the Wuhan Military Region (now abolished). He is a graduate of Central China Normal University and the Central Party School, and holds a master"s degree.

Yu has served in the PLAAF for more than 40 years, and successively held the positions of political commissar of the 19th and then 24th Air Force divisions, and deputy director of the political department of the Nanjing Military Region.

When Xi Jinping was in charge of Shanghai as the municipality"s Communist Party chief in 2007, Yu served as political commissar of the Air Force Shanghai Command. He then worked as director of the political department of the Lanzhou Military Region Air Force, and deputy director of the political department of the PLAAF. After Xi Jinping became the top leader of China in 2012, Yu Zhongfu changed his leadership positions three times within three years.

In November 2012, he was appointed political commissar of the Jinan Military Region Air Force as well as deputy political commissar of the Jinan Magnetic Resonance. In July 2014, he became political commissar of the Nanjing Military Region Air Force and deputy political commissar of the Nanjing Magnetic Resonance, succeeding Lieutenant General Song Kun, who had been promoted to deputy political commissar of the PLAAF. In July 2015, Yu replaced the retiring general Tian Xiusi as the 13th political commissar of the PLA Air Force, and became the superior of his predecessor Song Kun. Yu Zhongfu is also a writer and calligrapher.

Achievements

• Yu attained the rank of lieutenant general (zhong jiang) soon afterwards. Several of his articles have won military research awards, and he has been called the "calligrapher of the armed forces".