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About Xu Guangda
- Xu Guangda (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Xu Guangdá) (November 19, 1908 – June 3, 1969) was a People's Liberation Army general who was conferred the Da Jiang (Grand General) rank in 1955.
- His former name was Xu Dehua.Xu Guangda joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1925 and the Communist Party of China later the same year.
- At the age of 18, Xu went to Whampoa Military Academy.
- A year later, he was appointed the platoon leader on probation in the 4th Army of National Revolutionary Army.
- He took part in the Nanchang Uprising the same year, designated as the platoon leader and the substituted company commander.
- During the period of Agrarian Revolutionary War, Xu had held successively the post of: Staff of the 6 Army in the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Political Commissar and Commander of the 17 Divisional Army, Regimental Commander of the 22nd Regiment of the Eighth Divisional Army of 3 Red Army, Commander of the 8 Divisional Army, Regimental Commander of the 25th Regiment of 3 Red Army.
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