Zhang Lianzhong | |
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张连忠 | |
| 4th Commander of the People's Liberation Army Navy | |
| In office January 1988 – November 1996 | |
| Political Commissars | Li Yaowen, Wei Jinshan, Zhou Kunren |
| Preceded by | Liu Huaqing |
| Succeeded by | Shi Yunsheng |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 June 1931 Jiaozhou, Shandong, China |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
| Alma mater | PLAN Submarine Academy PLA National Defence University |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  People's Republic of China |
| Branch/service |  People's Liberation Army Navy |
| Years of service | 1947–1996 |
| Rank |  Admiral |
| Battles/wars | Chinese Civil War |
| Zhang Lianzhong | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 張連忠 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 张连忠 | ||||||||||
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Zhang Lianzhong (Chinese: 张连忠; born 23 June 1931) is a retired submariner and admiral of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). An army veteran of the Chinese Civil War, he trained to become a submariner in the 1960s and commanded China's first submarine mission to sail past the first island chain into the Pacific Ocean in 1976. He served as commander of the Lüshun Naval Base from 1983 to 1985 and as commander of the PLA Navy from 1988 to 1996.