Lai Yijun has a major in missiles and a reputation for stepping up when it counts.
Lai Yijun stepped in to take command of the guided-missile frigate Lianyungang during a multilateral live-fire naval exercise in Pakistan in 2007 when the vessel’s top officer fell sick.
Under Lai’s command, the Chinese frigate was one of the best performers in a competition to hit a surface target.Now Lai, who graduated from the PLA’s Dalian Naval Academy with a major in missiles, is at the helm of the Shandong, the first aircraft carrier built in China. Zhang Zheng, the former captain of the Liaoning, a converted Soviet-era carrier, was also in his forties when he took charge of the vessel in 2012 and had honed his language skills studying at Britain’s Joint Services Command and Staff College.Political commissar is a unique position within the PLA and goes back to the founding of the communist red army in 1927.
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