On this day 29 years ago, on January 23, 1996 (December 4, 1995 lunar calendar), Jiang Zemin awarded the rank of general to the recipients. Jiang Zemin and other leaders of the Military Commission and promoted to the rank of general. On January 23, 1996, the Central Military Commission held a grand promotion ceremony for the rank of general in Beijing. Zhou Ziyu, Yu Zhenwu, Ding Wenchang and Sui Yongju were promoted to the rank of general. Jiang Zemin attended the ceremony. Appendix: How did the rank system in our country come into being? How many general ranks have been awarded? After the founding of New China, in order to strengthen the regularization and modernization of the people's army, the issue of implementing the rank system was quickly put on the agenda. On September 4, 1950, when the General Cadre Management Department of the People's Liberation Army was established, the Military Rank Rewards Department was set up and began to study the issue of the military rank system. On November 26, 1952, the General Cadre Management Department formulated a preliminary plan for the preparations for the implementation of the military rank system in its report to Chairperson Mao Zedong and the Military Commission. On February 8, 1955, Mao Zedong promulgated the "Regulations on the Service of Officers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army" passed by the Sixth Session of the Standing Committee of the First National People's Congress, which stipulated the military ranks of officers, which were divided into marshal 2, general 4, colonel 4, and lieutenant 4, for a total of 14 levels. On August 11, 1955, Peng Dehuai, Minister of National Defense, and Luo Ronghuan, Director of the General Political Department, issued instructions on the evaluation of military ranks for sergeants and soldiers, stipulating the content of the military rank system for soldiers. The ranks of soldiers are divided into three grades of sergeants, first-class soldiers, and private soldiers, with a total of five grades of second class. On September 23, 1955, the 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the First National People's Congress reviewed the proposal put forward by Premier Zhou Enlai of the State Council in accordance with the "Regulations on the Service of Officers" and decided to grant the rank of marshal to senior generals who have made outstanding achievements in founding and leading the people's armed forces and leading the battle corps. On September 27 of the same year, a ceremony to confer the rank of marshal and medals was held in Beijing, and Chairperson Mao Zedong awarded Zhu De and other 10 people the rank of marshal; on the same day, the State Council held a ceremony to confer the rank of general and medals, and Premier Zhou Enlai will award the order of the rank of official to Su Yu and other generals; on the 28th, the Ministry of National Defense held a ceremony to confer the rank, and Minister Peng Dehuai conferred the rank of some school-level military officers in Beijing. Since then, the major military regions have also held ranking ceremonies. For the first time, the army awarded more than 531,000 officers with the rank of second lieutenant or above, including 10 marshals, 10 generals, 55 generals, 175 lieutenants, and 800 major generals, for a total of 1,040. After that, 2 generals, 2 lieutenants, and 560 major generals were elected. In 1963, the "Regulations on the Service of Officers" were amended, and the promotion of the military ranks of lieutenant officers and major officers for the first time was submitted to the heads of military regions, branches of the military, colleges, public security forces, and headquarters for approval on behalf of the Minister of Defense, and was announced and reported for the record by order of the Minister of Defense. On May 22, 1965, the 9th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Third National People's Congress discussed and decided to abolish the military rank system from June 1 of that year. So far, the whole army has awarded a total of 1,614 military ranks above the rank of general. In March 1980, Deng Xiaoping proposed at the expanded meeting of the Military Commission that whether the army should engage in a military rank system or not is also an issue of organizational line. On December 4, 1982, the Constitution of the People's Republic of China adopted at the Fifth Session of the Fifth National People's Congress stipulated that the People's Liberation Army would restore the military rank system; on June 19, 1983, the Central Military Commission issued the "Notice on the Establishment of the Leading Group for the Restoration of the Military Rank System", deciding to establish the Central Military Commission Leading Group for the Restoration of the Military Rank System, composed of 17 people including Yu Qiuli, Yang Dezhi, Xiao Ke, Wang Ping, Zhu Yunqian, Liu Huaqing, and Zhang Zhen. During this period, the Military Commission decided to "reduce the number of million" and the restoration of the military rank system was postponed. In April 1988, according to the personnel changes of the Military Commission and the headquarters, the Leading Group for the Implementation of the Military Rank System and its office were re-established, consisting of 10 people including Yang Baibing, Chi Haotian, Zhao Nanqi, Guo Linxiang, Li Yaowen, Zhu Guang, Ding Henggao, Liu Kai, Xing Zhiyong, Li Jinai, etc. On July 1, 1988, the Second Session of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress passed the "Regulations on the Military Rank of Officers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army" proposed by the Central Military Commission. The "Regulations" clearly stipulate the establishment of the rank grades of active-duty officers, the establishment of military ranks in the ranks of active-duty military ranks, the first conferment of the ranks of active-duty officers, the promotion of the ranks of active-duty officers, the demotion, cancellation and deprivation of the ranks of active-duty officers, and the signs and wearing of the ranks of active-duty officers The ranks of active-duty officers are divided into 4 ranks of general officers, 4 ranks of colonel officers, and 3 ranks of lieutenant officers, with a total of 3 grades and 11 grades. At the same time, the meeting also made the "Decision on Confirming the Military Ranks of Officers Awarded from 1955 to 1965". On September 14, 1988, the Central Military Commission held a ceremony in Beijing to confer the rank of general, and 17 people including Hong Xuezhi were awarded the rank of general. On October 1 of the same year, the People's Liberation Army officially implemented a new rank system. A total of 405,000 officers were awarded the rank of lieutenant, 180,000 the rank of colonel officer, and 1,452 the rank of general. On June 7, 1993, the Central Military Commission held a ceremony in Beijing to promote the rank of general officer, and Zhang Wannian and other six people were promoted to general; on June 8, 1994, Xu Huizi and other 19 people were promoted to general; on January 23, 1996, Zhou Ziyu and other four people were promoted to general; on March 27, 1998, Cao Gangchuan and other nine people were promoted to general. The classification of military ranks, in the document promulgated in 1955, all titles are divided into eight categories and 18 types: the first and second categories are command officer and political officer ranks, including 12 kinds; the third category is technical rank; the fourth category is military rank; the fifth category is military medical rank; the sixth category is veterinary rank; the seventh category is military law rank; the eighth category is administrative rank. Various military ranks, in addition to the corresponding names before their titles in accordance with the regulations, are also marked by symbols affixed to the collar. The new military rank system implemented in 1988 has been greatly streamlined in the classification of military ranks, and only four kinds are retained: army rank, navy rank, air force rank and professional technical rank. Before the title of the army, the words "No Champion" are marked by the "August 1st" red five-star army symbol that sets off the sword-shaped light line as a collar flower; the naval rank, before the title, is crowned with the word "Navy", with the "August 1st" red five-star naval symbol that sets off the iron anchor as a collar flower to mark; the air force rank, before the title, is crowned with the word "Air Force", with the "August 1st" red five-star setting off the flying air force symbol as a collar flower to mark; the professional technical rank, before the title, is crowned with the word "professional technology", with the "August 1st" red five-star setting off the atomic symbol as a collar flower to mark. Attached: List of Marshals, Generals and Admirals of the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China Zhu De Peng Dehuai Lin Biao Liu Bocheng He Long Chen Yi Luo Ronghuan Xu Qianqian Nie Rongzhen Ye Jianying (both awarded on September 23, 1955) Chinese People's Liberation Army General Su Yu Xu Haidong Huang Kecheng Chen Geng Tan Zheng Xiao Jingguang Zhang Yunyi Luo Ruiqing Wang Shusheng Xu Guangda (both awarded on September 27, 1955) Chinese People's Liberation Army General Wang Ping Wang Hongkun Wang Xinting Wei Guoqing Ulanhu Deng Hua Gan Siqi Ye Fei Lu Zhengchang Zhu Liangcai Liu Zhen Liu Yalou Xu Shiyou Yang Yong Yang Chengwu Yang Zhicheng Yang Dezhi Su Zhenhua Li Da Li Tao Li Tianyou Li Kenong Li Zhimin Song Ren Qiong Song Time Wheel Zhang Zongxun Zhang Aiping Chen Shizai Chen Zaidao Chen Bojun Chen Qihan Chen Mingren Chen Xilian Zhou Huan Zhou Shidi Zhou Chunquan Zhao Erlu Hong Xuezhi Zhong Qiguang He Bingyan Guo Tianmin Tang Liang Tao Xiyue Xiao Hua Xiao Ke Huang Yongsheng Yan Hongyan Han Xianchu Peng Shaohui Dong Qiwu Fu Zhong Fu Qiutao Xie Fuzhi Lai Chuanzhu (both awarded on September 27, 1955) Wang Jian'an (awarded on January 25, 1956) Li Jukui (awarded in 1958) Hong Xuezhi Liu Huaqing Qin Jiwei Chi Haotian Yang Baibing Zhao Nanqi Xu Xin Guo Linxiang You Taizhong Wang Chenghan Zhang Zhen Li Desheng Liu Zhenhua Xiang Shouzhi Wan Haifeng Li Yaowen Wang Hai (September 14, 1988) Awarded by order signed by Chairperson Deng Xiaoping of the Central Military Commission) Zhang Wannian Yu Yongbo Fu Quanyou Zhu Dunfa Zhang Lianzhong Cao Shuangming (June 7, 1993, awarded by the Central Military Commission) Xu Huizi Li Jing Yang Dezhong Wang Ruilin Zhou Keyu Ding Henggao Dai Xuejiang Li Wenqing Wang Ke Li Laizhu Gu Shanqing Liu Jingsong Cao Pengsheng Zhang Taiheng Song Qingwei Guhui Li Xilin Shi Yuxiao Li Jiulong (June 8, 1994, awarded by the Central Military Commission) Zhou Ziyu Yu Zhenwu Ding Wenchang Sui Yongju (January 23, 1996, awarded by the Central Military Commission) Cao Gangchuan Zhang Gong Xing Shizhong Wang Maorun Li Xinliang Fang Zuqi Tao Bojun Zhang Zhijian (March 27, 1998, awarded by the Central Military Commission) Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou (awarded by the Central Military Commission on September 29, 1998)