Zheng was born in
Wanrong County,
Shanxi province. He served at one point as secretary to General
Li Jinai. In 2003 he began a stint overseeing political education at the
National Defence University. In 2005 he became political commissar of the
41st Group Army. In 2007, he became the head of the political department of the
Guangzhou Military Region. In October 2012 he was appointed political commissar of the Nanjing Military Region. On 31 July 2015, Zheng was promoted to general (
shang jiang), the highest rank for Chinese military officers in active service. In 2016 Zheng became the inaugural political commissar of the newly established
Eastern Theater Command. In September 2017 he was appointed political commissar of the
Strategic Support Force, replacing General
Liu Fulian.
He Ping succeeded Zheng as the Eastern TC commissar. On February 28, 2021, he was appointed vice-chairperson of the
National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee. Zheng has been a member of the
18th and
19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. == References ==