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Zhou Deli

Chinese colonel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Zhou Deli was a senior officer of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China, holding the rank of senior colonel. He served as Chief of Staff of the Guangzhou Military Region and later the Nanjing Military Region.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Zhou Deli” is chinese colonel. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Zhou, Deli and Chinese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 37-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Zhou, Deli and Chinese is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zhou Deli” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.