He Lei

He Lei
He Lei
何雷
Vice-President of the PLA Academy of Military Science
	In office; December 2013 – October 2018
President	Liu Chengjun→Gao Jin→Cai Yingting→Zheng He→Yang Xuejun
Deputy Commander of the Lanzhou Military Region
	In office; July 2013 – December 2013
Leader	Liu Yuejun (commander)
Personal details
Born	June 1955 (age 69); Luoyang, Henan, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	PLA National Defence University; Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party
Military service
Allegiance	People's Republic of China
Branch/service	People's Liberation Army Ground Force
Years of service	1968-present
Rank	Lieutenant general
Unit	38th Group Army
Commands	Lanzhou Military Region

He Lei (Chinese: 何雷; pinyin: Hé Léi; born June 1955) is a lieutenant general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.^[1]^[2]

Biography

He was born in Luoyang, Henan, in June 1955, to a military family, while his ancestral home in Tongjiang County, Sichuan Province. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army in 1968, when he served in the military in Beijing Military Region. At the end of 1990, he was transferred to the PLA Academy of Military Science, the PLA's highest-level research institute and center of military science. In July 2013 he was appointed deputy commander of the Lanzhou Military Region. Five months later, he became vice-president of the PLA Academy of Military Science.^[3]^[4]

He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in July 2009 and lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in July 2014.^[5]