Fan Changlong	Xu Qiliang

Fan Changlong and Xu Qiliang have been appointed Vice Chairmen of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the Seventh Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee on November 4. Vice President Xi Jinping, and two generals—Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou—are also Vice Chairmen of the Central Military Commission of the CPC.

Fan was born in Dandong, northeast China's Liaoning Province, in 1947. He joined the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and joined an artillery regiment in the Shenyang Military Command in 1969. He became the commander of the regiment in 1982. He was appointed chief of staff of the Shenyang Military Command in 2000 and commander of the Jinan Military Command in 2004.

Born in 1950 in Linqu, east China's Shandong Province, Xu joined the PLA in 1966. He graduated from the Fifth Aviation School of the PLA Air Force and became a pilot in 1969. Xu served as deputy commander of the 26th Division of the Air Force and later served as commander from 1980 to 1984. He became chief of staff of the PLA Air Force in 1994. He served as deputy commander of the PLA's Shenyang Military Area Command from 1999 to 2004. Xu was appointed the PLA's deputy chief of general staff in 2004 and commander of the PLA Air Force in 2007.