Huang was born in
Wugong County,
Shaanxi, in October 1948. He enlisted in the
People's Liberation Army (PLA) in March 1968, and joined the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in February 1969. He was assigned to the
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in 1968, and eventually becoming its political commissar in May 2000. In August 2006, he was promoted to become deputy political commissar of the
People's Liberation Army General Armaments Department, a position he held until December 2011. He was promoted to the rank of
major general (
shaojiang) in July 1997 and
lieutenant general (
zhongjiang) in July 2007. ==References==