Xu Caihou, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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former General of the People's Liberation Army
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Place of Birth: Wafangdian, Liaoning, China
About Xu Caihou
- Xu Caihou (Chinese: ???; June 1943 – March 15, 2015) was a Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the country's top military council.
- As Vice-Chairman of the CMC, he was one of the top ranking officers of the People's Liberation Army.
- He also held a seat on the 25-member Politburo of the Communist Party of China between 2007 and 2012.Born to a working-class family in Liaoning province, Xu spent much of his earlier career in northeastern China.
- He moved to Beijing in 1990 to become political commissar of the 16th Group Army, later serving as editor of the PLA's flagship newspaper, the PLA Daily.
- In 1996 Xu became political commissar of the Jinan Military Region.
- He became Vice-Chairman of the CMC in September 2004.
- He retired from office in March 2013. Xu was detained and put under investigation on suspicion of bribery in March 2014, in one of the highest profile corruption investigations in PLA history, and was expelled from the Communist Party in June 2014.
- Xu accumulated massive wealth by routinely demanding large bribes for the promotion of officers under him during his time as Vice-Chairman of the CMC.
- Xu was undergoing legal proceedings and facing a court martial but charges were dropped after he died of bladder cancer in March 2015.
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