Zhao Keming

Zhao was born in Wuhan, Hubei, in October 1942. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1961, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the following year. He became a reporter of the ''People's Liberation Army Daily'' in 1980, and was dispatched to the Guangzhou Military Region in August 1985. He served as deputy head and then head of the Propaganda Division of the People's Liberation Army General Political Department in May 1988. He was appointed political commissar of the 47th Group Army in February 1995. In January 1996, he became deputy political commissar of the PLA National Defence University, rising to political commissar in July 2001. In March 2008, he took office as vice chairperson of the National People's Congress Financial and Economic Affairs Committee. He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in 1988, lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in 1998, and general (shangjiang) in 2004. ==References==