Hong Xuezhi

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Hong Xuezhi" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Chinese. (March 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Chinese Wikipedia article at [[:zh:洪学智]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|zh|洪学智}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Hong Xuezhi
Xuezhi in 1955
Native name	洪学智
Nickname(s)	"The 6-star colonel general" (liù xīng shàng jiàng, 六星上将)
Born	(1913-02-02)February 2, 1913 Shuanghe town, Shangcheng County, Henan, China (now in Jinzhai County, Anhui, China)
Died	November 20, 2006(2006-11-20) (aged 93) Beijing, China
Allegiance	People's Republic of China
Rank	General
Battles / wars	Chinese Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War Korean War
Awards	Order of Bayi (First Class) Order of Independence and Freedom (First Class) Order of Liberation (First Class) Order of the National Flag, 1st class Order of Freedom and Independence, 1st class (twice)
Other work	Vice Chairperson of the Seventh and Eighth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (1990-1998)

Hong Xuezhi (Chinese: 洪学智; February 2, 1913 – November 20, 2006) was a Chinese general and politician. He was the only person awarded the rank of 3-star general in 1955 who was reawarded the same rank in 1988 as an active PLA officer when the PLA readopted a rank system.^[1]