Yang Tian

Yang Tian

Yang Tian (1920 - May 8, 2002), born in De'an County, Jiangxi Province, joined the Communist Party of China in 1937 and studied in Yan'an Anti Japanese university in the same year. He was promoted to the rank of major general in 1964. In 1988, he won the first-class Red Star Medal.

brief introduction

(1920-2002) from De'an County, Jiangxi Province. He joined the vanguard of Chinese national liberation in 1936. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1937 and joined the Eighth Route Army in the same year. During the Anti Japanese War, he served as the district leader of the Chinese people's Anti Japanese military and Political University, the propaganda officer of the Political Department of the brigade, the chief of the propaganda unit of the Political Department of the brigade, the political instructor of the second branch of the brigade, the head of the cultural and Engineering Corps of the general anti Japanese university, the deputy chief and acting chief of the education section of the Political Department of the general anti Japanese university, the chief of the administration section of the sixth branch of the general anti Japanese military university, the director of the front general command of the Eighth Route Army, and the deputy chief of the fourth section. During the war of liberation, he served as deputy director and director of the military administration department of the headquarters of the Shanxi Hebei Luyu military region, deputy director of the south line Office of the North China military region, and director of the General Staff Department of the Logistics Department of the military region. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he served as director of the Secretariat of the General Logistics Department, acting director of the Planning Bureau, deputy chief of staff of the headquarters and director of the organization and Planning Bureau, deputy director of the Logistics Department of the Chinese people's Volunteer Army, deputy chief of staff of the General Logistics Department of the Chinese people's Liberation Army and director of the Institute of logistics technology and equipment, director of the Logistics Department of the science and Technology Commission for national defense, and director of the Logistics Department of the science, technology and Industry Commission for national defense minister.

Life

Former Minister of Logistics Department of science, technology and Industry Commission for national defense (retired cadre of the regiment).
Comrade Yang Tian, a native of De'an County, Jiangxi Province, joined the Communist Party of China in 1937 and studied in Yan'an Anti Japanese university in the same year. He successively served as the leader, secretary, chief of section, political instructor, head of the cultural and industrial corps, deputy chief and chief of section of the Anti Japanese university, deputy director and chief of the military administration department of the headquarters of the Shanxi Hebei Shandong Henan military region, deputy director of the south line Office of the North China military region, chief of staff of the Logistics Department of the North China military region, and Military Commission Secretary General of the General Logistics Department, deputy chief of staff of the General Logistics Department command, deputy chief of staff of the rear service department of the volunteer army, deputy chief of staff of the General Logistics Department command and President of the logistics technology and equipment research institute, chief of staff of the General Logistics Department command, director of the Logistics Department of the science and Technology Commission for national defense, director of the Logistics Department of the science, technology and Industry Commission for national defense, etc. He was promoted from major to major general in 1964.
During the Anti Japanese War, he made contributions to the cultivation of Anti Japanese backbone. He took part in the anti mopping up struggle in the base areas, and did a lot of work for the consolidation and development of the Anti Japanese base areas in an extremely difficult combat environment, fearing no hardship, danger or sacrifice. during the war of liberation, he took part in the battle on the Longhai line. In the war of self-defense, he commanded the troops directly under the headquarters of the Shanxi Hebei Shandong Henan military region, successfully completed the tasks of besieging the Kaizhou enemy and crossing the river. He also made great efforts to do a good job in the battle of Jinan and Huaihai, and made great contributions to the cause of liberation of the Chinese people. After the outbreak of the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, he tried every means to raise materials for the volunteers. In the period of socialist revolution and construction, he actively explored the way of logistics support and management under the new situation, and made contributions to the construction of military logistics normalization. In the leading post of logistics support for national defense scientific research and experiment, he paid close attention to the service technology and personnel life support of Quartermaster supply, medical and health care, transportation, processing and repair, and successfully completed the logistics support task of scientific research and experiment.
Comrade Yang Tian died on May 8, 2002 in Beijing at the age of 83.

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