This is a list of marshals and full generals and admirals of the People's Republic of China, including all branches of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police.
Marshals (元帅)
Ten PLA officers were awarded the rank of Marshal (yuan shuai) in 1955.Marshals PRC Ministry of Defense The rank was never awarded again. Zhu De Peng Dehuai Lin Biao Liu Bocheng He Long Chen Yi Luo Ronghuan Xu Xiangqian Nie Rongzhen Ye Jianying
Army Generals (大将）
Ten PLA officers were awarded the rank of Army General/Fleet Admiral (da jiang) in 1955.Army Generals PRC Ministry of Defense The rank was never awarded again. Su Yu Xu Haidong Huang Kecheng Chen Geng Tan Zheng Xiao Jinguang Zhang Yunyi Luo Ruiqing Wang Shusheng Xu Guangda
Generals (上将, 1955) Source:Generals eng.mod.gov.cn Zhang Zongxun Song Renqiong Zhao Erlu Xiao Ke Wang Zhen Zhou Chunquan Xu Shiyou Liu Yalou Deng Hua Chen Zaidao Yang Dezhi Peng Shaohui Wang Hongkun Li Kenong Chen Bojun Li Da Yang Chengwu Li Tao Xiao Hua Gan Siqi Lai Chuanzhu Chen Qihan Song Shilun Su Zhenhua Chen Xilian Chen Shiju Wang Xinting Xie Fuzhi Ye Fei Huang Yongsheng Zhu Liangcai Yang Yong Zhang Aiping Fu Qiutao Han Xianchu Tang Liang Hong Xuezhi Li Zhimin Zhou Huan Li Tianyou Liu Zhen Yang Zhicheng Wang Ping Zhong Qiguang Guo Tianmin Wei Guoqing He Bingyan Lu Zhengcao Ulanhu Fu Zhong Zhou Shidi Tao Zhiyue Dong Qiwu Chen Mingren Yan Hongyan Wang Jian'an (1956) Li Jukui (1958)
Generals (上将, 1988-Present) Since the restoration of military ranks in 1988, the People's Liberation Army rank of shang jiang (上将: literally, "senior general") is translated as General.
Promoted in 1988 On 14 September 1988, 17 officers were promoted to the rank: Hong Xuezhi (2nd time) Liu Huaqing Qin Jiwei Chi Haotian Yang Baibing Zhao Nanqi Xu Xin Guo Linxiang You Taizhong Wang Chenghan Zhang Zhen Li Desheng Liu Zhenhua Xiang Shouzhi Wan Haifeng Li Yaowen Wang Hai
Promoted in 1993 On 7 June 1993, 6 officers were promoted to General: Zhang Wannian Yu Yongbo Fu Quanyou Zhu Dunfa Zhang Lianzhong Cao Shuangming
Promoted in 1994 On 8 June 1994, 16 officers were promoted to General: Xu Huizi Li Jing Yang Dezhong Wang Ruilin Zhou Keyu Ding Henggao Dai Xuejiang Lin Boang Gu Shanqing Liu Jingsong Cao Fansheng Zhang Taiheng Song Qingwei Gu Hui Li Xilin Shi Yuxiao
Promoted in 1996 On 23 January 1996, 4 officers were promoted to General: Zhou Ziyu Yu Zhenwu Ding Wenchang Sui Yongju
Promoted in 1998 On 27 March 1998, 9 officers were promoted to General: Cao Gangchuan Yang Guoliang Zhang Gong Xing Shizhong Wang Maorun Fang Zuqi Tao Bojun Zhang Zhijian Yang Guoping
Promoted in 1999 On 29 September 1999, two officers were promoted to General: Guo Boxiong Xu Caihou
Promoted in 2000 On 21 June 2000, 16 officers were promoted to General: Huai Fulin Wu Quanxu Qian Shugen Xiong Guangkai Tang Tianbiao Yuan Shoufang Zhang Shutian Zhou Kunren Li Jinai Shi Yunsheng Yang Huaiqing Liu Shunyao Wang Zuxun Du Tiehuan Liao Xilong Xu Yongqing
Promoted in 2002 On 2 June 2002, 7 officers were promoted to General: Qiao Qingchen Wen Zongren Qian Guoliang Jiang Futang Chen Bingde Liang Guanglie Liu Shutian
Promoted in 2004 On 20 June 2004, 14 officers were promoted to General: Ge Zhenfeng Zhang Li You Xigui Zhang Wentai Hu Yanlin Zheng Shenxia Zhao Keming Zhu Qi Liu Dongdong Lei Mingqiu Liu Zhenwu Yang Deqing Wu Shuangzhan Sui Mingtai
On 25 September 2004, 2 officers were promoted to General:Promotions to help Hu build armed forces base telegraphindia.com Zhang Dingfa Jing Zhiyuan
Promoted in 2006 On 24 June 2006, 10 officers were promoted to General:China confers rank of general to 10 officers english.gov.cn Liu Yongzhi Sun Zhongtong Chi Wanchun Deng Changyou Peng Xiaofeng Pei Huailiang Fu Tinggui Yu Linxiang Zhu Wenquan Wang Jianmin
Promoted in 2007 On 6 July 2007, 3 officers were promoted to General:Xu Qiliang, Sun Dafa and Wu Shengli promoted to General news.163.com Xu Qiliang Sun Dafa Wu Shengli
On 2 November 2007, 1 officer was promoted to General:Head of PLA general armaments department promoted general news.xinhuanet.com Chang Wanquan
Promoted in 2008 On 15 July 2008, 3 officers were promoted to General:Liu Zhenqi, Huang Xianzhong and Fan Changlong Promoted to General chinanews.com Liu Zhenqi Huang Xianzhong Fan Changlong
Promoted in 2009 On 20 July 2009, 3 officers were promoted to General:Ma Xiaotian, Liu Yuan and Zhang Haiyang promoted to General news.163.com Ma Xiaotian Liu Yuan Zhang Haiyang
Promoted in 2010 On 19 July 2010, 10 officers were promoted to General:Hu Jintao promotes PLA Generals news.xinhuanet.com Zhang Qinsheng Tong Shiping Liu Chengjun Wang Xibin Fang Fenghui Wang Guosheng Zhao Keshi Chen Guoling Zhang Yang Li Shiming
Promoted in 2011 On 23 July 2011, 5 officers were promoted to General:China promotes 6 generals, bringing total to 191 news.xinhuanet.com Sun Jianguo Hou Shusen Jia Ting'an Liu Xiaojiang Zhang Youxia
Promoted in 2012 On 30 July 2012, 6 officers were promoted to General:China promotes 6 officers to general news.xinhuanet.com Du Jincai Liu Yazhou Du Hengyan Tian Xiusi Wang Jianping Xu Yaoyuan
On 23 November 2012, 1 officer was promoted to General:Xi Jinping promotes PLA general chinadaily.com.cn Wei Fenghe
Promoted in 2013 On 31 July 2013, 6 officers were promoted to General: Wu Changde Wang Hongyao Sun Sijing Liu Fulian Cai Yingting Xu Fenlin
Promoted in 2014 On 11 July 2014, 4 officers were promoted to General: Qi Jianguo Wang Jiaocheng Chu Yimin Wei Liang
Promoted in 2015 On 31 July 2015, 10 officers were promoted to General: Wang Guanzhong Yin Fanglong Miao Hua Zhang Shibo Song Puxuan Liu Yuejun Zhao Zongqi Zheng Weiping Li Zuocheng Wang Ning
Promoted in 2016 On 29 July 2016, 2 officers were promoted to General: Zhu Fuxi Yi Xiaoguang
Promoted in 2017 On 28 July 2017, 5 officers were promoted to General: Han Weiguo Liu Lei Yu Zhongfu Wang Jiasheng Gao Jin
On 2 November 2017, one officer was promoted to General: Zhang Shengmin
Promoted in 2019 On 31 July 2019, 10 officers were promoted to General: Li Shangfu Yuan Yubai Wu Shezhou Fan Xiaojun Zhu Shengling Shen Jinlong Qin Shengxiang Ding Laihang Zheng He An Zhaoqing
On 12 December 2019, 7 officers were promoted to General: He Weidong He Ping Wang Jianwu Li Qiaoming Zhou Yaning Li Fengbiao Yang Xuejun
Promoted in 2020 On 29 July 2020, one officer was promoted to General: Xu Zhongbo
On 18 December 2020, 4 officers were promoted to General: Guo Puxiao Zhang Xudong Li Wei Wang Chunning
Promoted in 2021 On 5 July 2021, 4 officers were promoted to General: Wang Xiubin Xu Qiling Liu Zhenli Ju Qiansheng
On 6 September 2021, 5 officers were promoted to General: Wang Haijiang Lin Xiangyang Dong Jun Chang Dingqiu Xu Xueqiang
Promoted in 2022 On 21 January 2022, 7 officers were promoted to General: Liu Qingsong Wu Ya'nan Xu Deqing Qin Shutong Yuan Huazhi Li Yuchao Zhang Hongbing
On 8 September 2022, 1 officer was promoted to General: Wang Qiang
Promoted in 2023 On 18 January 2023, 1 officer was promoted to General: Huang Ming
On 28 June 2023, 2 officers were promoted to General: Zheng Xuan Ling Huanxin
On 31 July 2023, 2 officers were promoted to General: Wang Houbin Xu Xisheng
On 25 December 2023, 2 officers were promoted to General: Wang Wenquan Hu Zhongming
Promoted in 2024 On 28 March 2024, 2 officers were promoted to General: Wang Renhua Xiao Tianliang
On 9 July 2024, 1 officer was promoted to General: He Hongjun
On 23 December 2024, 1 officer was promoted to General: Chen Hui
Promoted in 2025 On 22 December 2025, 2 officers were promoted to General:
Yang Zhibin Han Shengyan
Promoted in 2026 On 3 July 2026, 2 officers were promoted to General:
Zhang Shuguang Wang Gang
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