Wang Zhen
Wang Zhen (11 April 1908 - 12 March 1993) was a Chinese political figure and one of the Eight Elders of the CCP. He was the 4th Vice President of China and served under Chinese Presidents Yang Shangkun and Li Xiannian. Wang Zhen was the first Vice Chairman to serve in the Central Advisory Commission, under Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.
Wang Zhen was a participant in the Long March and a former military political commissar, he played a prominent role in opposing bourgeois liberalism and persecuting liberals in the 1980s. Before 1949 he had been a political commissar in the Eighth Route Army and head of the Yan'an garrison. After 1949, he led the PLA in Xinjiang and established the paramilitary Xinjiang Construction and Production Corps. His two sons, Wang Jun and Wang Zhi, have held leading positions in state enterprises and banks.