Commander Ma Xiaotian Role General Name Chen Dong | Rank Lieutenant General Allegiance China | |
Service/branch People's Liberation Army Air Force | ||
Political party Communist Party of China | ||
Chen dong one of two astronauts flying the shenzhou 11 spacecraft
Chen Dong (Chinese: 陈东) is a lieutenant general (zhong jiang) of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) of China. He has been Deputy Commander of the PLAAF since late 2012. He formerly served as Director of the Electronic Warfare Department (Department 5) of the PLA General Staff Department. He was elevated to the rank of lieutenant general on 16 July 2014.
He was one of the six lieutenant generals of the PLA who participated in the 2015 China Victory Day Parade, the first time in PRC history that military parade squads were led by officers ranked as high as lieutenant generals.
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