Li Qiaoming


Li Qiaoming is a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He has been Commander of the Northern Theater Command since September 2017.

Biography

Li Qiaoming was born in April 1961 in Yanshi, Henan Province and enlisted in the People's Liberation Army in 1976. He successively served as Chief of Staff of the 361st Regiment, Commander of the 364th Regiment, Chief of Staff of the 124th Division, Deputy Chief of Staff of the 42nd Group Army, and Commander of the 124th Division of the 42nd Army.
He was appointed Chief of Staff of the 41st Group Army in January 2010, and promoted to Commander of the 41st Army in September 2013. In 2013 he wrote an article about soviet army "nonparty tragedy". In February 2016, he became Commander of the Northern Theater Command Ground Force, and awarded the rank of lieutenant general a few months later. In September 2017, he was promoted again to Commander of the Northern Theater Command, succeeding General Song Puxuan, who had been appointed Director of the Logistic Support Department of the Central Military Commission.
In October 2017, he was elected as a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.