Huang Cisheng

Huang was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, in April 1938. He joined the People's Liberation Army soon after finishing college from the PLA Rocket Force University of Engineering in 1960. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in May of the following year. He had successively served as the staff officer, deputy team leader, deputy director, director and then president of the Training Department of the Academic Affairs Office, dean of its Command School, dean of its Engineering College, and director of its Equipment Technology Department. In November 1996, he was assigned as deputy commander of the Second Artillery Corps, and held that office until July 2001. He died of illness in Beijing, on July 25, 2020. He was promoted to major general in 1988 and to lieutenant general in 1998, aged 82.^[2]