Commander of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
In office 1954–1968
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Liu Shuangquan
Personal details
Born
1892 Xianfeng Township, Ningxiang County, Hunan, Qing dynasty
Died
26 December 1988(1988-12-26) (aged 95–96)
Nationality
Chinese
Political party
Communist Party of China (1982–88) Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
Awards
Order of Liberation (First Class Medal) (1955)
Military service
Allegiance
Republic of China People's Republic of China
Branch/service
Hunan clique (1914–26) National Revolutionary Army (1926–47) Republic of China Army (1947–49) People's Liberation Army Ground Force (1949–68) Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (1954–68)
Years of service
1914–1968
Rank
General of the PLA (awarded 1955) Lieutenant general of the Republic of China Army
Commands
NRA 1st Army (1938–45) NRA 37th Army Group (1942–44) PLA 22nd Corps (1949–54) PLA Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (1954–68)
Battles/wars
Northern Expedition (1926–28) Third Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet (1931) Second Sino–Japanese War (1937–45) Chinese Civil War (1946–49) Peaceful Liberation of Xinjiang (1949)
Tao Zhiyue (Chinese: 陶峙岳; pinyin: Táo Zhìyuè; Wade–Giles: T'ao Chih-yüeh; 1892 – 26 December 1988) was a Chinese military officer and politician, lieutenant general of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, and a full general of the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China.[1]
Born to a wealthy land-owning family, he graduated from the Baoding Military Academy, rose to high military positions in the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek and was closely associated with Zhang Zhizhong. In 1949 he defected to the Communists, playing a key role in the incorporation of Xinjiang into the People's Republic of China and then went on to hold high office under Mao Zedong, most notably serving as the first commander of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps from 1954 to 1968.
^"Tao Zhiyue 1892 - 1988)" in James Z. Gao: Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800–1949), p. 358, 2009, Scarecrow Press
TaoZhiyue (Chinese: 陶峙岳; pinyin: TáoZhìyuè; Wade–Giles: T'ao Chih-yüeh; 1892 – 26 December 1988) was a Chinese military officer and politician, lieutenant...
early leading members were Wang Kunlun, Cheng Qian, He Xiangning and TaoZhiyue. The party claims to be the true heir of Sun Yat-sen's legacy and his...
Wang Zhen. It initially comprised 175,000 military personnel, led by TaoZhiyue as its first commander. XJBT was initially focused on settling, cultivating...
Tianmin Wei Guoqing He Bingyan Lu Zhengcao Ulanhu Fu Zhong Zhou Shidi TaoZhiyue Dong Qiwu Chen Mingren Yan Hongyan Wang Jian'an (1956) Li Jukui (1958)...
the Malayan community". Tan had a leading role among the 110 founders of Tao Nan School in Singapore. In 1919, he set up The Chinese High School (now...
prominence in Guangdong from 1951, initially following a ruthless ultra-leftist, Tao Zhu, who was notable for his heavy-handed efforts to force local peasants...
factions. This opened the way for attacks on Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, and Tao Zhu in December 1966 and January 1967. By September 1968, Zhou candidly described...
administration in Xinjiang. The Kuomintang Xinjiang provincial leaders TaoZhiyue and Burhan Shahidi led the KMT government and army's defection to the...
People's Liberation Army entered Xinjiang in 1949, when Kuomintang commander TaoZhiyue and government chairman Burhan Shahidi surrendered the province to them...
Kenong Li Tao (李涛) Li Tianyou Li Zhimin Liu Yalou Liu Zhen Lü Zhengcao Peng Shaohui Song Renqiong Song Shilun Su Zhenhua Tang Liang TaoZhiyue Ulanhu Wang...
of China. The Republic of China Armed Forces commanders in Xinjiang, TaoZhiyue and provincial governor Burhan Shahidis surrendered to the People's Liberation...
Global Information
Order of Liberation (First Class Medal) (1955)
Republic of China
People's Republic of China
Hunan clique (1914–26)
National Revolutionary Army (1926–47)
People's Liberation Army Ground Force (1949–68)
General of the PLA (awarded 1955)
Lieutenant general of the Republic of China Army