Huang Kecheng (1902-1986) was born in Yongxin County, Hunan Province. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1925. Huang involved himself in the Northern Expedition (1926-1927), Southern Hunan Uprising (1928), Jinggang Mountain Fighting and the Long March (1934-1936). During the Anti-Japanese War, he held the post of the political Commissar in No.344 Brigade belonging to No.115 Division of the Eighth Route Army (led by the CCP during the war of Resistance-against Japan) and the post of the Secretary of CPC in the area of Northern Jiangsu Province. During the Liberation War (1945-1949), he worked as the Commander of the Ximan Military Region, the Vice-Commander of Northeastern Military Region, the Secretary of CPC in Tianjin. After the establishment of PRC, he sequentially worked as the Secretary of CPC in Hunan province, the commander and Political Commissar of the Hunan Military Region, the Vice-minister of the National Defense Department, the Head Secretary of Central Military Committee of CPC and the chief of staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. In 1955, he was conferred the Senior-General military title and awarded the first-rank Bayi Medal, the first-rank Independence and Freedom Medal and the first Liberation Medal. He was also a member of the 9th Central Committee of the CPC, the 10th Central Committee of the CPC and the secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and the 11th Central Committee of the CPC, as well as the Second Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC.