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Sun Zhongtong

孙忠同

Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Military Commission

In office
December 2004 – September 2009

Preceded by

Zhang Shutian

Succeeded by

Tong Shiping

Personal details

Born

October 1944 (age 80)
Wendeng, Shandong, China

Political party

Chinese Communist Party

Alma mater

Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party

Military service

Allegiance

People's Republic of China

Branch/service

People's Liberation Army Ground Force

Years of service

1964–2009

Rank

General

Chinese name

Simplified Chinese

孙忠同

Traditional Chinese

孫忠同

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Sūn Zhōngtóng

Sun Zhongtong (Chinese: 孙忠同; born October 1944) is a retired general of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China. He served as vice director of the PLA General Political Department.

Biography

Born in Wendeng, Shandong, Sun entered the work force in September 1964, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in September 1965. He graduated from the CCP Central Party School, majoring in economics management.

He enlisted in the army in January 1965, and served in various posts in the Liaoning Military District. He was elevated to vice director of the propaganda department of the PLA General Political Department in October 1990. In May 1993, he became editor-in-chief of the PLA Daily and president of the newspaper agency in September 1994. He became the assistant director of the General Political Department and a member of the CCP committee there in July 2001. He was elevated to vice director of the General Political Department in July 2004. In December of the same year, he was also appointed Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Military Commission.

He attained the rank of major general in July 1993, lieutenant general in July 2002, and full general in June 2006.^[1]

He was an alternate member of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a full member of the 17th Central Committee.

References

^ Central Military Commission Awarded 10 Generals, Two of Them From Shandong Archived 2011-06-02 at the Wayback Machine Shandong News

Military offices
Preceded by Yang Zicai [zh]	Editor-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army Daily 1993–1994	Succeeded by Yu Shunchang [zh]
Preceded by Xu Caihou	President of the People's Liberation Army Daily 1994–2001	Succeeded by Zhang Zongyin
Party political offices
Preceded by Zhang Shutian [zh]	Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Central Military Commission 2004–2009	Succeeded by Tong Shiping

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