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Wang Yongning, male, Han nationality, is a native of Yijun, Shaanxi Province. He was born in 1929, joined the CPC in 1945, and graduated from the PLA Politics Academy in 1962.

Wang Yongning has spent over 60 years with the PLA Army. He joined the 8th Route Army in 1940 and fought in the in the Liberation War from 1945-1949 in both the summer and winter offenses. Wang served in a variety of posts with the PLA: political commissar of the PLA Guilin Army Academy, as a lieutenant general in the PLA Army, and as deputy political commissar of the PLA Chengdu military region.

Wang was a member of the 6th and 7th NPCs and of the 8th CPPCC National Committee and a member of the standing committee of the 9th CPPCC National Committee.

Recent Career Data

1998—2003	Member, 9th CPPCC, National Committee
1993—1998	Member, 8th CPPCC, National Committee
1990—????	Deputy Political Commissar, PLA, Regions, Chengdu Military Region
1988	Lieutenant General, PLA
1988—1993	Deputy, 7th NPC
1983—1988	Deputy, 6th NPC
1945	Joined, CPC
1940	Joined, PLA