Li Dongye

Li was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, in 1916.^[1][2] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1937, and enlisted in the Eighth Route Army in the same year.^[1][2] During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he worked in the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party in Yan'an, Shaanxi.^[1][2] During the Chinese Civil War, he was deputy director of Political Department of the Liaoning Military District.^[1][2]

After the establishment of the Communist State in 1949, he became director of Political Department of Dalian Naval School.^[1][2] He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in 1964.^[1][2] He was political commissioner of National University of Defense Technology in February 1979, and held that office until December 1983.^[1][2] On 2 January 2011, he died from an illness in Shanghai, aged 95.^[1][2]