Zhang Chiming (1917.08.24--- 1997.11.08), formerly known as Zhang Jiaxiang, Zhang Chimin, and Zhang Jiaju. A native of Sidian Township, Xinxian County, Henan. In 1929, he joined the Communist Youth League of China. He served as the chief of the county children's regiment, and a member of the Standing Committee and secretary general of the Children's Bureau of the Central Branch of the Communist Party of China. In 1932, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In 1934, it was transferred from the Communist Youth League to the Communist Party of China. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he successively served as the secretary of the Young Communist League Committee of the 13th Independent Regiment of Eyuwan, the 2nd Regiment of the Red 27th Army, the 246th Regiment of the 82nd Division of the Red 28th Army, the secretary of the Military Department of the Red 25th Army, and the acting section chief and section chief of the Operations Section of the Red 15th Army Headquarters. He participated in the anti-encirclement and suppression struggle in the Eyu-Anhui and Eyu-Shaanxi Soviet regions and the Long March of the Red 25th Army. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he participated in the battles of Laoshan, Zhiluo, the Eastern Expedition and the Western Expedition. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University to study, and later served as the chief of the operations section of the 344th Brigade Headquarters of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the political commissar of the 688th Regiment, the director of the Political Office of the Special Agent Regiment, the director of the Political Office of the 2nd Brigade of the Jiluyu Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, the political commissar of the 687th Regiment of the 344th Brigade, the political commissar of the 22nd Regiment of the 8th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army, and the director of the Political Department of the 8th Brigade and the Yanfu Military Sub-district. During the Battle of Pingxingguan and the war of liberation during the anti-sweeping and anti-encroachment struggles in Jin-Cha-Ji, northeastern Anhui, and northern Jiangsu, he served as a member of the Songjiang Military and Political Committee, director of the Political Department of the Songjiang Military Region of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army and deputy political commissar of the Harbin Garrison District, first secretary of the Songjiang First Prefectural Committee of the CPC and political commissar of the Hadong Military Sub-district and political commissar of the Independent 2nd Division, political commissar and director of the Political Department of the 16th Division of the 6th Column of the Northeast Field Army, and political commissar and political commissar of the 127th Division of the 43rd Army of the People's Liberation Army. He successively participated in the battles of Sibao Linjiang, Liaoshen, Pingjin, Dujiang, Xianggan, Guangdong, and Hainan Island. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as political commissar of the 43rd Army and second secretary of the Hainan Island District Committee of the South China Branch of the CPC Central Committee, member of the Hainan Island Military and Political Committee, first secretary of the Guangdong West District Committee of the South China Branch of the CPC, political commissar of the West Guangdong Military Region, director, director and political commissar of the Logistics Department of the Fourth Field Army and central and southern military region, chief of staff of the General Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission, vice president and dean of the Logistics College, deputy director and political commissar of the General Logistics Department, deputy director and political commissar of the General Logistics Department, and political commissar of the Artillery Of the Central Military Commission. He is a deputy to the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China and a member of the Ninth and Tenth Central Committees. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general and was awarded the Order of August 1, Second Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom, Second Class, and the Liberation Medal, First Class. In 1988, he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Red Star, Second Class.