Ye Jianying's Military and Political Legacy

Ye Jianying's Military and Political Legacy

Ye Jianying

As a founding marshal of the PLA and a pivotal political elder, Ye Jianying played a vital role in national defense and state stability. He masterminded the crucial arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976, ending the Cultural Revolution, supporting Deng Xiaoping's return, and guiding China's smooth transition toward reform and opening up.

Timeline

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Year Ye Jianying
1897
Birth of Ye Jianying (Period: April 28, 1897, Location: Jiaoying Prefecture, Guangdong Province, Qing Empire (now Meixian District, Meizhou, Guangdong, China))
1917
Enrollment in Yunnan Military Academy (Ye Jianying, Age: 19 years old, Period: 1917–1920, Location: Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China)
1924
Marriage (Ye Jianying, Feng Hua, Age: 26 years old, Period: 1924, Location: China (exact location unknown))
Assuming Office as Deputy Director of the Instructors Department at Whampoa Military Academy (Ye Jianying, Age: 27 years old, Period: May 1924, Location: Huangpu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China)
1926
Northern Expedition (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1926–1928, Location: From Guangdong Province toward Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Nanjing, and Shanghai, China)
1927
Marriage (Ye Jianying, Ceng Xianzhi, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1927, Location: China (exact location unknown))
Nanchang Uprising (Age: 30 years old, Period: August 1, 1927, Location: Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, China)
Guangzhou Uprising (Age: 30 years old, Period: December 11–13, 1927, Location: Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China)
1937
Second Sino-Japanese War (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1937–1945, Location: Various regions in China)
Marriage (Ye Jianying, Wei Gongzhi, Age: 39 years old, Period: 1937, Location: China (exact location unknown))
Assuming Office as Chief of Staff of the Eighth Route Army (Ye Jianying, Age: 40 years old, Period: August 1937 – 1941, Location: Yan'an and North China region, Shaanxi Province, China)
1940
Marriage (Ye Jianying, Wu Bo, Age: 42 years old, Period: 1940, Location: China (exact location unknown))
1948
Marriage (Ye Jianying, Li Gang, Age: 50 years old, Period: 1948, Location: China (exact location unknown))
1949
Establishment of the PRC and Liberation of Guangzhou (Age: 52 years old, Period: October 1949, Location: Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China)
1955
Appointment as Marshal (Age: 58 years old, Period: September 27, 1955, Location: Beijing, China)
1967
February Adverse Current (Age: 69 years old, Period: February 1967, Location: Beijing, China)
1975
Assuming Office as Minister of National Defense (Ye Jianying, Age: 77 years old, Period: January 1975 – February 1978, Location: Beijing, China)
1978
Assuming Office as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (Ye Jianying, Age: 80 years old, Period: March 1978 – June 1983, Location: Beijing, China)
1981
Proposal of the "Nine-Point Proposal" for Taiwan Unification (Age: 84 years old, Period: September 30, 1981, Location: Beijing, China)
1985
Retirement from Political Activity (Ye Jianying, Age: 88 years old, Period: September 1985, Location: Beijing, China)
1986
Death of Ye Jianying (Age: 89 years old, Period: October 22, 1986 (Beijing, China))

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Founding of the PRC Deng Xiaoping Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Liu Shaoqi Zhu De Chen Yun Jiang Qing Hua Guofeng Ye Jianying Wang Hongwen Zhang Chunqiao
Nation-building in Taiwan Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Ching-kuo Chen Cheng Yen Chia-kan Lee Teng-hui Sun Li-jen Koo Chen-fu James Soong (Soong Chu-yu) Kang Ning-hsiang Shih Ming-teh
State-building in South Korea Syngman Rhee Park Chung-hee Chun Doo-hwan Roh Tae-woo Kim Young-sam Kim Dae-jung Chang Myon Kim Jong-pil Lee Byung-chul Chung Ju-yung Kim Jae-gyu
Post-war Reconstruction of Japan Shigeru Yoshida Ichiro Hatoyama Nobusuke Kishi Hayato Ikeda Eisaku Sato Kakuei Tanaka Takeo Fukuda Masayoshi Ohira Yasuhiro Nakasone Takeo Miki

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