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Zhao Keming

Chinese military personnel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ8299760 ↗
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Zhao Keming (Chinese: 赵可铭; born ) is a general in the People's Liberation Army of China. He was a representative of the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, and 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a delegate to the 9th National People's Congress and a member of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress.

Biography

Zhao was born in Wuhan, Hubei, in October 1942. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1961, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the following year. He became a reporter of the People's Liberation Army Daily in 1980, and was dispatched to the Guangzhou Military Region in August 1985. He served as deputy head and then head of the Propaganda Division of the People's Liberation Army General Political Department in May 1988. He was appointed political commissar of the 47th Group Army in February 1995. In January 1996, he became deputy political commissar of the PLA National Defence University, rising to political commissar in July 2001.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1961, 1980, 1985—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-01-01. For this dossier, Zhao, Keming and Chinese is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “chinese military personnel” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8299760. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942, 1961, 1980 and 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zhao Keming” 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.