You Xigui

You Xigui
You Xigui
由喜贵
	In October 1999, Jiang Zemin visited France, with You Xigui on the second from right.
Director of the Central Guard Bureau of the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party
	In office; August 1994 – September 2007
Preceded by	Yang Dezhong
Succeeded by	Cao Qing
Personal details
Born	May 1939 (age 84–85); Ding County, Hebei, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Military service
Allegiance	People's Republic of China
Branch/service	People's Liberation Army Ground Force
Years of service	1958–2007
Rank	General
Unit	Central Guard Regiment
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	由喜贵
Traditional Chinese	由喜貴
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yóu Xǐguì

You Xigui (Chinese: 由喜贵; born May 1939) is a retired general in the People's Liberation Army of China. He was an alternate member of the 15th and 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.^[1]

Biography[edit]

You was born in Ding County (now Dingzhou), Hebei, in May 1939. He served in the Central Guard Regiment from January 1958 to July 1983. In July 1983, he was assigned to the Central Guard Bureau of the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party, where he was promoted to deputy director in July 1985 and to director in August 1994.^[2]^[3]

He attained the rank of major general (shaojiang) in July 1990, lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in July 1997, and general (shangjiang) in June 2004.^[4]。

^ Zhang Jingru (张静如); Zhao Yongmin (赵勇民); Li Ying (李颖), eds. (2012). 中国共产党全国代表大会史丛书从一大到十七大第5册图文版 [The History Series of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (from the First National Congress to the Seventeenth National Congress)]. Shenyang, Liaoning: Wanjuan Publishing Company. p. 330. ISBN 978-7-5470-1983-2.
^ Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee; Party History Research Center of the CCP Central Committee, eds. (2004). 中国共产党历届中央委员大辞典 1921–2003 [Dictionary of the CCP Central Committee Members 1921–2003]. Beijing: CCP History Publishing House. pp. 971–972. ISBN 7-80136-946-7.
^ Shen Xueming (沈学明); Zheng Jianying (郑建英), eds. (2001). 中共第一届至十五届中央委员 [Member of the 1st to 15th CCP Central Committee]. Beijing: Central Party Literature Press. p. 137. ISBN 7-5073-1034-5.
^ Xu Ping (徐平) (2010). 新中国实行军衔制纪实 [On the Implementation of the Military Rank System in New China]. Beijing: Jincheng Publishing House. p. 377. ISBN 978-7-80251-378-5.

Military offices
Preceded by Yang Dezhong	Director of the Central Guard Bureau of the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party 1994–2007	Succeeded by Cao Qing