15 High-Ranking CCP Military Generals Die in Less Than 4 Months

Mourners gather outside the memorial halls for the deceased at a funeral home in Shanghai, China, on Dec. 31, 2022. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

In less than four months since December 2023, at least 15 high-ranking generals in the Chinese military have died of illness, all of them were members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Among them are four lieutenant generals, Wei Jinshan, former political commissar of the Navy, Shi Kexin, former deputy political commissar of the Second Artillery, Qian Haihao, former vice dean of the Military Science Academy, and Shen Chunnian, former deputy director of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, as well as Sheng Zhiyong, an academician of the Academy of Engineering and former deputy director of the 304th Hospital, a military hospital.

Four Lieutenant Generals

Shen Chunian, 90, a lieutenant general and former deputy director of the CCP’s National Defense Science and Technology Industry Committee (NDSTIC), passed away on March 4. The official obituary praised him as an outstanding member of the CCP, a time-tested loyal communist fighter, and an outstanding leader of the CCP’s national defense science and technology industry.