Gong Gucheng
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| office1 = Chief of Staff of the Guangzhou Military Region
| term_start1 = December 1993
| term_end1 = November 1996
| predecessor1 = Tao Bojun
| successor1 = Song Wenhan
| name = Gong Gucheng
| native_name = 龚谷成
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| birth_place = Xinhua County, Hunan, China
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| party = Chinese Communist Party
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| alma_mater = PLA First Engineering Corps Technical School
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| serviceyears = 1960–2008
| rank = 50px Lieutenant general
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| commands = Guangzhou Military Region
| battles = Vietnam War
Battle of the Paracel Islands
Sino-Vietnamese War
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Gong Gucheng ({{zh|s=龚谷成}}; born December 1940) is a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army of China. He was an alternate member of the 14th and 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a representative of the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Throughout his military career, he participated in the Vietnam War, the Battle of the Paracel Islands, and the Sino-Vietnamese War.
Biography
Gong was born in the town of Baixi, Xinhua County, Hunan, in December 1940, to Gong Guoguang ({{zh|s=龚光国|labels=no}}), a primary school teacher, and Chen Yueying ({{zh|s=陈月英|labels=no}}), a small merchant.{{cite news |url=https://new.qq.com/omn/20210405/20210405A03GZH00.html |script-title=zh:原广州军区副司令员龚谷成将军到母校新化一中视察指导工作！ |work=qq.com |date=5 April 2021 |access-date=18 September 2022 |language=zh}}{{cite news |author1=Zeng Dexin ({{lang|zh|曾德新}})|url=https://ld.rednet.cn/content/2018/11/01/720673.html |script-title=zh:春秋几度赤胆心——龚谷成中将 |work=rednet.cn |date=1 November 2018 |access-date=18 September 2022 |language=zh}} He is the first of seven children. He attended Xinhua County No. 1 High School. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 1958, and enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in July 1960. He graduated from the PLA First Engineering Corps Technical School. In 1967, he was assigned to the Guangzhou Military Region, and eventually becoming chief of staff in December 1993 and deputy commander in November 1996. In 1998, he served as commander in chief of Hubei Yangtze River Flood Fighting Army, and in 1999, he served as commander in chief of Yiyang Flood Fighting Army. On August 8, 1998, the then Premier Zhu Rongji visited the disaster area in Hubei to inspect the disaster situation and hugged him closely. He retired in August 2008.
He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in July 1990 and lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in July 1995.
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Category:People from Xinhua County
Category:People's Liberation Army generals from Hunan
Category:People's Republic of China politicians from Hunan
Category:Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hunan
Category:Alternates of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Category:Alternates of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party