Major-General Zhang Rucheng has been appointed to replace Major-General Liu Kailiang as political commissar of the People's Liberation Army garrison in Hong Kong, the Central Military Commission announced yesterday.
General Yang Deqing, political commissar of the PLA Guangzhou military area command, visited Hong Kong specially to make the announcement, PLA spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Qin Jijun said. General Liu has been appointed political commissar of the PLA Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region military area command. General Zhang, born in 1947, joined the PLA in 1964.
General Yang, accompanied by Lieutenant-General Wang Jitang , commander of the PLA Hong Kong garrison, led generals Liu and Zhang to visit Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen.