Li Zuopeng

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Li Zuopeng (simplified Chinese: 李作鹏; traditional Chinese: 李作鵬; pinyin: Lǐ Zuòpéng; April 24, 1914 – January 3, 2009) was a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

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Li was born in Ji'an, Jiangxi in 1914. He joined the Chinese Red Army in 1930.[citation needed]

In the Cultural Revolution, Li was elected as the member of the 9th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party in 1969. As an ally of Lin Biao, he lost his position after Lin Biao's fall. He was put on trial and given a seventeen-year prison sentence in 1981.[citation needed]

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