据澎湃新闻消息，记者从相关部门获悉，General Zhang Lixiong, the founding major general and former adviser to the Fuzhou Military Region, died in Nanjing, Jiangsu on the afternoon of April 2, 2024 due to ineffective medical treatment. He was 111 years old.

According to public information, Zhang Lixiong was born on November 21, 1913 in Yanzi Tower Natural Village, Zhangyun Village, Tongxian Township, Shanghang County, Fujian Province. He joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1929, transferred to the Communist Party of China in 1931, and joined the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants in 1932.

据央视新闻此前报道介绍，General Zhang Lixiong was the only surviving founding general in the country who participated in the 25,000-mile Long March。

in 1932

After joining the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants

Zhang Lixiong experienced the Central Soviet Area

The fourth and fifth counter-"encirclement and suppression" operations

Experiencing the 25,000-mile Long March

during the anti-Japanese War

He participated in struggles such as opening up anti-Japanese base areas in northern Henan

during the war of liberation

He also participated in the Breakout of the Central Plains and the Huaihai Campaign

and the liberation of the Southwest

Have experienced countless life and death tests

in 1955

Zhang Lixiong was awarded the rank of senior colonel

in 1961

Zhang Lixiong was promoted to the rank of major general

in addition

Zhang Lixiong also won the Second Class August 1st Medal

second-level independent freedom medal

Medal of Liberation, First Class

First-class Red Star Medal, etc.

in 1998

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Red Army's Long March

85-year-old Zhang Lixiong hand-painted

"Outline Map of the Red Army's Long March Route I Went"

records his past

The distances traveled and the places fought

The work is now collected in

Central Soviet Area (Western Fujian) History Museum

Retired General Zhang Lixiong

I am also concerned about the construction of my hometown and educational development

Donated multiple times

July 2016

He gave a gift to his hometown of Zhangyun Village, Tongxian Town, Shanghang County, Fujian Province

donated 100,000 Yuan

December 2019

Donated another 10,000 yuan to Tongxian Middle School in Shanghang County

August 2023

Put 1236 books in his collection

Donate to the newly built and open

New Library of Shanghang County

And donated 100,000 yuan to the Shanghang County Education Bureau

In a letter to the Shanghang County Party Committee and County Government

Zhang Lixiong wrote this:

"It was the Red Army who taught me to read and read

It was the party who trained and educated me

Become a qualified revolutionary soldier."

Only one surviving founding general remains

After the death of General Zhang Lixiong, there is only one surviving founding general, namely Wang Fuzhi, the former deputy commander of the Urumqi Military Region, who was awarded the title in 1964. General Wang was born in 1923 and is 101 years old this year.

From 1955 to 1965, China awarded or promoted a total of 10 marshals of the People's Republic of China, 10 generals of the People's Liberation Army, 57 generals of the People's Liberation Army, 177 lieutenant generals of the People's Liberation Army and 1360 major generals of the People's Liberation Army.

These people are generally collectively referred to as the "Founding Generals".

At present, among the "founding generals" group, marshals, generals, generals, and lieutenant generals have all passed away. The first batch of founding generals awarded the title in 1955 have all passed away.