Office1: | Chief of Staff of the Western Theater Command |
Term Start1: | January 2016 |
Predecessor1: | New title |
Office2: | Deputy Commander of the Western Theater Command |
Term Start2: | January 2016 |
Leader2: | Zhao Zongqi Zhang Xudong |
Office3: | Chief of Staff of the Chengdu Military Region |
Term Start3: | December 2014 |
Term End3: | December 2015 |
Predecessor3: | Zhou Xiaozhou |
Successor3: | Position revoked |
Rong Guiqing | |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Birth Place: | Weishi County, Henan, China |
Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
Alma Mater: | PLA National Defence University |
Rank: | Lieutenant general |
Rong Guiqing (; born May 1958) is a lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He has been Deputy Commander of the PLA Ground Force since December 2015, and previously served as Chief of Staff of the Chengdu Military Region and Commander of the 54th Group Army.
Rong was born in Weishi County, Henan Province. He is a graduate of the PLA National Defence University. He is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
In July 2008, he was promoted to the rank of major general. In 2009 he became Commander of the 54th Group Army of the Jinan Military Region, a position he held until December 2014, when he was transferred to the Chengdu Military Region and served as Chief of Staff, replacing Zhou Xiaozhou.[1] [2] In December 2015, he was promoted again to become Deputy Commander of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force.[3] In January 2016, he was appointed deputy commander and chief of staff of the newly established Western Theater Command.[4] He was promoted to lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in July 2016.
He was a delegate to the 12th National People's Congress.[5]