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Former commander of Chengdu military area dies

Li Jiulong, a former commander of the Chengdu Military Area Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), died of illness on Nov. 19, at the age of 75.

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Li Jiulong, a former commander of the Chengdu Military Area Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), died of illness on Nov. 19, at the age of 75.

Top leaders including Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Huang Ju, Wu Guanzheng, and Li Changchun mourned Li's death in various forms.

Li, a native of Fengrun, Hebei Province, joined the Communist Party of China (CPC)-led revolution in 1943. He fought as a soldier and officer of the CPC-led army during the wars against the Japanese invaders and the Kuomintang troops, the Korean War and the 1979 border clash with Vietnam.

Li also served as the commander of the PLA Jinan Military Area Command and deputy director of the PLA General Logistics Department at different times.

Li was praised for his efforts to strengthen the army's combat capabilities on highland areas in the Tibet Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province, in southwest China.

Li was a member of the 12th, 13th and 14th CPC Central Committee. In 1988, he was promoted to lieutenant-general, and in 1994 he became a general.

He was a deputy to the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) this March, when he was appointed a vice chairman of the NPC Committee of Internal and Judicial Affairs.

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