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Zhang Lixiong

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Zhang Lixiong
Zhang Lixiong
Birth: 21 November 1913
Tongxian Town, Shanghang County, Fujian Province, China
Death: 2 April 2024
China
Age: 110 years, 133 days
Country: ChinaCHN
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Zhang Lixiong [Chinese: 张力雄] (21 November 1913 - 2 April 2024) was a Chinese supercentenarian and soldier whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography[]

Zhang Lixiong was born in Zhangyun Village, Tongxian Town, Shanghang County, Fujian Province, China (then Republic of China) on 21 November 1913 into a poor family.

He started participating in riots during the Chinese Civil War in 1929 at the age of 16 after meeting red army soldiers and around 1932 joined the Red Army. He participated in multiple battles from 1932 to 1934 and in 1934 was in the Red Army unit that started the Long March. He led 800 soldiers to battle and had multiple near-death experiences, for example once a notebook he carried blocked a bullet.

Later, he participated in the Huahai campaign (1948–1949) and the campaign to suppress bandits in southwestern China (1950–1953) and in 1961 was promoted to the rank of Major General.

He was one of the three people of the Jiangxi standing committee who voted against the execution of dissident Li Jiulian (1946–1977).

Around 2020 or 2021, he was hospitalised, but after a lengthy hospitalization, he recovered and was discharged.

He was the last of the five founding Major Generals of the People's Liberation Army.

In August 2023, he donated his book collection (1,236 books) and 100,000 Renminbi to local poor students.

In November 2023, he celebrated his 110th birthday and became a supercentenarian.

Zhang Lixiong died in China on 2 April 2024 at the age of 110 years, 133 days.

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