Liu Anyuan

Liu was born into a poor peasant family in Gaoqing County, Shandong, on 5 December 1927.[1][2] His mother died when he was a child, and he was raised by his maternal grandfather Liu Jipei (刘继佩).[1]

In October 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army attacked Shandong and he left school due to the Japanese occupation.[1][2] He became a member of the Youth Counter-Japanese National Salvation Association (青年抗日救国会) in 1943, and took part in an underground resistance movement in response to the ongoing occupation of China by the Empire of Japan.[1][2] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in November 1943, and enlisted in the Eighth Route Army in August 1945.[1][2]

During the Chinese Civil War, he served in the war and engaged in the Battle of Shanhai Pass, Battle of Changchun, Battle of Siping, Liaoshen campaign, Pingjin campaign, Yangtze River Crossing campaign, and Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi.[1][2]

After establishment of the Communist State in 1949, he participated in the Battle of Guangzhou and the Battle of Hainan Island.[1] In 1958, he was appointed commander of the 508 Artillery Regiment, and went on to attend Wuwei Artillery School three years later. He was deputy head of the Organization Division of the People's Liberation Army General Political Department and deputy head of its Cadre Division in 1973 and then deputy political commissar of the Guangzhou Military Region in 1985.[2] In November 1987, he was promoted to become political commissar of the People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department, a position he held until April 1990, when he was commissioned as political commissar of the Second Artillery Corps.[1][2] He attained the rank of lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in 1988. In November 1992, he was chosen as political commissar of the Nanjing Military Region, serving in the post until his retirement in December 1993.[2]

On 23 May 2001, he died in Nanjing, Jiangsu, at the age of 73.