Cheng Zihua

Cheng Zihua
程子华
Cheng Zihua
Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office September 1980 – April 1988
Chairman	Deng Xiaoping Deng Yingchao
Minister of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China
In office February 1978 – March 1982
Premier	Hua Guofeng Zhao Ziyang
Preceded by	New title
Succeeded by	Cui Naifu
Minister of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
In office 11 September 1958 – 18 February 1960
Premier	Zhou Enlai
Preceded by	Chen Yun
Succeeded by	Yao Yilin
Communist Party Secretary of Shanxi
In office August 1949 – February 1951
Preceded by	New title
Succeeded by	Lai Ruoyu
Governor of Shanxi
In office August 1949 – February 1951
Preceded by	New title
Succeeded by	Pei Lisheng
Personal details
Born	(1905-06-20)20 June 1905 Xiezhou [zh], Shanxi, Qing Empire
Died	30 March 1991(1991-03-30) (aged 85) Beijing, People's Republic of China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Spouse	Zhang Hui
Children	2
Alma mater	Republic of China Military Academy
Military service
Allegiance	People's Republic of China
Branch/service	People's Liberation Army Ground Force
Years of service	1926–1950
Rank	Army group commander (Equivalent to Senior general)
Battles/wars	Second Sino-Japanese War Chinese Civil War
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	程子华
Traditional Chinese	程子華
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chéng Zǐhuá

Cheng Zihua (Chinese: 程子华; June 20, 1905 – March 30, 1991) was a People's Republic of China politician and military general.^[1] He was born in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province. He was the 1st Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary and governor of his home province. He was a delegate to the 3rd (1964-1975), 4th (1975-1978) and 5th (1978-1983) National People's Congress. Cheng was an important part of the Third Front campaign to develop basic and national defense industry in China's interior.