On October 24, 2008 (September 26, 2008 in the lunar calendar), founding general Xiao Ke passed away due to illness. Comrade Xiao Ke, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a time-tested and loyal communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionary and military strategist, former member of the Standing Committee of the Central Advisory Committee of the Communist Party of China, Vice Chairman of the Fifth National Committee of the China People's Political Consultative Conference, former member of the Central Military Commission, former Vice Minister of the Ministry of National Defense and President of the Military Academy, and First Political Councilor, died in Beijing at 12:51 on October 24, 2008 due to ineffective medical treatment. He was 102 years old. Contemporary military strategist and military educator. People from Jiahe, Hunan. Born in a scholarly family. He joined the National Revolutionary Army in 1926 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1927. He served as company commander of the 71st Regiment of the 24th Division of the 11th Army of the National Revolutionary Army. Participated in the Northern Expedition, the Nanchang Uprising and the Southern Hunan Uprising. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he served as battalion commander, column chief of staff and division commander of the Red Army, commander of the Eighth Red Army, commander of the Sixth Red Army, deputy commander in chief of the Second Red Front Army, and commander of the 31st Army of the Fourth Red Front Army. Participated in the Long March. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as deputy commander of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, commander of the Jirecha Advance Army, deputy commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and commander of the Jirezha-Liao Military Region. During the War of Liberation, he served as deputy commander of the North China Military Region and vice president of the North China Military and Political University, chief of staff of the Fourth Field Army and chief of staff of the Central South Military Region. After the founding of New China, he served as Minister of the Military Training Department of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Minister and Minister of the Training Supervision Department, Deputy Minister of National Defense, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Agricultural Reclamation, President of the Military and Political University of the People's Liberation Army, Deputy Minister of National Defense and President of the Military Academy and First Political Commissar. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of general. He is a member of the First to Third National Defense Commissions, Vice Chairman of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Member of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Alternate Member of the Tenth Central Committee, Member of the Eleventh Central Committee, and Standing Member of the Central Advisory Committee. Comments General Xiao Ke is known as a "Confucian General" for his ability to write poems and books. He is also the only general among them who has written a novel and won the Mao Dun Literature Award.