Han Weiguo

Originally from Jingxing County, Hebei, Han is a graduate of the PLA National Defense University. He served as the commander of the 12th Group Army (now 71st Group Army), then in December 2013, the deputy commander of the Beijing Military Region (now defunct). He was promoted to lieutenant general in 2015. After the 2016 re-organization of the PLA, he was named Commander of the Central Theater Command; at that time he was only one of two lieutenant generals named to commander or commissar positions in the re-organized Theater Command structure.^[1] He was promoted to the rank of General on July 28, 2017.^[2] In August 2017, he commanded a military parade at Zhurihe Training Base in Inner Mongolia celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Nanchang uprising and the founding of the People's Liberation Army, which marked the first time that a Chinese military parade had been held outside of the capital of Beijing.^[3] That same month, Han was named the commander of the PLA Ground Force, succeeding General Li Zuocheng.^[4]

In 2013, Han became a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress.^[5] In October 2017, he was elected as a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.^[6]

On 20 August 2021, he was appointed vice chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress.^[7]

On 2 March 2026, the fifteenth meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) adopted a decision to revoke Han's membership in the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC and to remove him from his positions as a member of the Standing Committee of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and vice chairman of the Proposals Committee.^[8]