Office1: | Political Commissar of the Chengdu Military Region | ||||||
Term Start1: | December 1993 | ||||||
Term End1: | May 1999 | ||||||
Predecessor1: | Zhang Gong | ||||||
Successor1: | Yang Deqing | ||||||
Office2: | Commander of the PLA Beijing Garrison | ||||||
Term Start2: | November 1992 | ||||||
Term End2: | December 1993 | ||||||
Zhang Zhijian | |||||||
Native Name: | 张志坚 | ||||||
Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||
Birth Place: | Wenxi County, Shanxi, China | ||||||
Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
Allegiance: | China | ||||||
Serviceyears: | 1951–1999 | ||||||
Rank: | General | ||||||
Battles: | Korean War | ||||||
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Zhang Zhijian (born May 1934) is a general (shangjiang) of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China.
Zhang was born in 1934 in Wenxi, Shanxi. He joined the PLA in 1951. In 1992 he became the Deputy Commander of the Beijing Military Region, and later served as Political Commissar of the Chengdu Military Region. He attained the rank of major general in 1988, lieutenant general in 1990, and full general in 1998.[1]