General Su Yu died at the age of 76 at 16:33 on February 5, 1984 at the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army.

Su Yu (August 10, 1907 - February 5, 1984), infant name Jiye, school name Duozhen, the word Yu, to the word line, Hunan Huitong people [2]:4817, Han Chinese descendants of the Dong ethnic group. Chinese revolutionary and militarist. One of the main leaders of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

In his later years, he was ranked as a deputy state-level leader of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China.In 1955, he was awarded the rank of general, located in the founding of the country, one of the ten generals, and was simultaneously awarded the First Class Order of the Eighty-first Order of the People's Republic of China, the First Class Order of the Independence of Freedom, and the First Class Order of Liberation.

General Su Yu is the author of "wartime staff work", "Battle of Yu Dong" and so on. In his later years, Su Yu authored Su Yu Memoirs, which was first published in November 1988 under the title of Su Yu War Memoirs, and then reprinted in August 2007 and renamed Su Yu Memoirs.

Articles on the military written by Su Yu during his lifetime were organized and published in three volumes of Su Yu's Military Anthology. Later, various articles written by Suyu were organized into three volumes of "Suyu Anthology" published.

Expanded Information:

Suyu studied at Hunan No. 2 Teachers' College and joined the Chinese ****anese Communist Party in 1927. He then joined the Chinese Red Army and took part in the Nanchang Uprising and Xiangnan Uprising, before entering Jinggang Mountain and taking part in all five anti-siege wars. After the Long March of the Central Red Army, he stayed in the south to organize guerrilla warfare.

Successively served as battalion commander and division commander of the First Army of the Red Army, chief of staff of the Seventh and Tenth Armies, commander of the Advancement Division, commander of the Fujian and Zhejiang Military Region, and participated in the opening up of guerrilla bases in southern Zhejiang.

Participated in the War of Resistance against Japan. Later, he became deputy commander of the second detachment of the New Fourth Army, commander of the advance detachment, deputy commander of the New Fourth Army's Jiangnan and North Jiangsu Command, and participated in commanding the Battle of Huangqiao.

After the South Anhui Incident, he served as the commander and political commissar of the First Division of the New Fourth Army, and the secretary of the Central Committee of the Central Suzhong, Suzhong and Zhejiang Districts. Later, he was also the commander of the Sixth Division, and participated in the Battle of Cheqiao. During the second national **** civil war, he served as commander of the Central China Field Army, deputy commander of the East China Field Army, acting commander, acting political commissar, deputy commander of the Third Field Army and second deputy political commissar.

Acting as Acting Commander and Acting Political Commissar of the Third Field Army, he took part in commanding the Battle of Suzhong, the Battle of Suzhou-North, the Battle of Lunan, the Battle of Laiwu, the Battle of Mengliangtsu, the Battle of Yuandong, the Battle of Jinan, and the Battle of Shanghai, together with Chen Yi and Liu Bocheng. He took part in commanding the Huaihai Battle and the Battle of the Yangtze River.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as Chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Vice Minister of the Ministry of National Defense, Vice President of the Academy of Military Science and First Political Commissar of the PLA, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China (CMC) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) of China, and vice-chairman of the Fifth National People's Congress Standing Committee.

It was an alternate member of the 7th Central Committee of the C***, and a member of the 8th to 11th Central Committee. Su Yu was unreasonably criticized during an expanded meeting of the Military Commission in 1958, and was not fully rehabilitated until 1994, ten years after his death. He was elected a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Advisory Committee at the 12th National Congress of the People's Republic of China.

Su Yu died on February 5, 1984 in Beijing.

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