Guo Boxiong

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Guo Boxiong
郭伯雄
General Guo Boxiong
Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission
In office State Commission: 16 March 2003 – 14 March 2013 Party Commission: 15 November 2002 – 15 November 2012 Serving with Hu Jintao, Cao Gangchuan, Xu Caihou and Xi Jinping
Chairman	Jiang Zemin Hu Jintao
Personal details
Born	July 1942 (age 81) Liquan, Shaanxi, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party (1963–2015, expelled)
Spouse	He Xiulian
Relations	Guo Boquan [zh] Wu Fangfang [zh] (Daughter-in-law)
Children	Guo Zhenggang Guo Yonghong
Parent	Guo Xiaoxi
Alma mater	PLA Military Academy
Military service
Allegiance	People's Republic of China
Branch/service	People's Liberation Army
Years of service	1960-2013
Rank	General (1999–2016, deprived)
Commands	Beijing Military Region Lanzhou Military Region
Chinese name
Chinese	郭伯雄
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Guō Bóxióng Wade–Giles Kuo Po-hsiung

Guo Boxiong (born July 1942)^[1] is a former general of the People's Liberation Army of China. He served as the Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, China's top military council, between 2002 and 2012.^[2] During the same period he also held a seat in the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party,^[3] China's top decision-making body. He was expelled from the Communist Party on 30 July 2015. On July 25, 2016, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for bribery.^[4]