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Wei Guoqing (Wei Bangkuan) was born on 2 September, 1913 in Donglan County, Guangxi, China, is a Chinese general and politician (1913–1989). Discover Wei Guoqing's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Wei Bangkuan
Occupation N/A
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 2 September, 1913
Birthday 2 September
Birthplace Donglan County, Guangxi, China
Date of death 14 June, 1989
Died Place Beijing, China
Nationality China

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1913

Wei Guoqing (Zhuang: Veiz Gozcing; 2 September 1913 – 14 June 1989) was a Chinese government official, military officer and political commissar of Zhuang ethnicity.

1929

He joined the Chinese Red Army at the age of 16 (1929) and the CPC in 1931.

He rose to the rank of battalion commander in the Seventh Army under Deng Xiaoping and was a regimental commander on the Long March.

1940

After the Long March he served in the 344th Brigade, and then marched south under Huang Kecheng's 5th Column in January 1940.

1944

By 1944, he commanded the 4th Division of the New Fourth Army, and later three columns (the 2nd, 10th and 12th) of the North Jiangsu Army in the Huai-Hai Campaign.

1948

In 1948, Wei held off the Nationalist 2nd Army Corps of Qiu Qingquan and 100 tanks of the 5th Corps under the command of Jiang Weiguo (Chiang Wei-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's son) in a decisive delaying action in the Huai-Hai Campaign.

1949

In 1949, Wei was deputy political commissar of General Ye Fei's Tenth Army Group of the Third Field Army.

1950

Wei was deeply involved in China's relations with North Vietnam from 1950.

In April of that year, Liu Shaoqi sent him to Vietnam as head of the Chinese Military Advisory Group, to advise Ho Chi Minh on fighting the French;

1953

In October 1953, Wei reportedly personally gave Ho Chi Minh a copy of the French Navarre plan.

1954

In June 1954, Wei attended the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina with Premier Zhou Enlai, USSR Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, Vietnamese representative Phạm Văn Đồng, US State Department official Bedell Smith and UK Deputy Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs for Administration Anthony Eden.

Wei was specifically instructed to discuss military matters with the Vietnamese delegation when Molotov, Smith and Eden were not present.

1955

When formal military ranks were introduced in 1955, Wei Guoqing was made a general, and in 1956 became an Alternate Member of the Central Committee at the Eighth National Party Congress.

1958

He served as the Chairman of Guangxi from 1958 to 1975 and on the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo (1973–1982) and as Director of the People's Liberation Army's General Political Department (1977–1982).

In his role as the senior-most official in Guangxi, Wei hosted the January 1958 Nanning Conference, attended by Chairman Mao Zedong and most of the very top leadership.

While Wei was a junior among the heavyweights, he was present at one of the decisive Great Leap Forward discussions where outrageous targets were approved.

1961

After returning to China, Wei moved to Nanning, Guangxi, where he was the senior party (1961-GPCR) and government (1955-GPCR) official in Guangxi Autonomous Region for an unusually long period.

1964

General Wei was named 1st Political Commissar of the Guangxi Military District (MD) in January 1964, a post he held until October 1975.

1965

It was from Guangxi and Yunnan that Chinese troops entered Vietnam in 1965–70.

1967

In March 1967, Zhou Enlai ordered the establishment of the "Guangxi Revolutionary Preparatory Group", headed by incumbent CPC 1st Party Secretary Wei.

However, Wei was beaten by a Guangxi-origin mob in August while visiting Beijing.

1968

In 1968, the "Guangxi April 22 Revolutionary Action Command" opposed Wei Guoqing's leadership while the "Guangxi United Command of Proletarian Revolutionaries" supported him.

1969

Wei was one of the few members of the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Central Committees (1969–1987) and the 10th through 12th politburos not purged during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) or Deng Xiaoping's backlash.

1971

He added the leadership of the CPC committee in February 1971.

During the Cultural Revolution, Wei managed to keep control of Guangxi.

1975

He was also a Vice Chair of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (1975–1989) and of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (1964–1983).

Wei was born in Donglan, Guangxi, to a poor Zhuang minority family.

1982

In August 1982, Liberation Army Daily, the newspaper directly under General Political Department Director Wei's authority, published a broadside against "bourgeois liberalization" that was seen as an attack on Deng Xiaoping's policies just prior to the 12th Party Congress.

As a result, Wei was dismissed, and replaced by General Yu Qiuli.

1985

He resigned from his posts in 1985 and died in Beijing in June 1989.