A forum on the publication of the Biographies of the PLA Senior Generals was held yesterday in Beijing. Guo Boxing, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPC and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, Cao Gangchuan, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPC, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, state councilor and defense minister, and Xu Caihou, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPC and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the forum.

　　Veteran figures such as Zhang Wannian, Chi Haotian, Bo He and members of the Central Military Commission Liang Guanglie, Li Jinai, Liao Xilong, Qiao Qingchen and Jing Zhiyuan attended the forum.

　　With the approval of the Central Military Commission, the Biographies of the PLA Senior Generals is compiled by the Party History Research Center of the Central Committee of the CPC and the General Political Department of the PLA. It is the first voluminous biographical series giving a full account of the life and achievements of the old generation of military strategists and senior generals of the people's army in the histories of the CPC and the PLA. This magnum opus (in series), which costs more than 1,000 people over a decade of hard work, presents a systematic account on the history of an old generation of military strategists and senior generals in making revolution, fighting for and building a new China. It is both a vivid record of their life long revolutionary practice and a miniature of the history of the PLA.

　　It's said that the series is projected to come off the press in 40 volumes incorporating the biographies of 375 military strategists and senior generals, of which 12 volumes of 90 biographies will be published in this first batch and the remainders will come out in 2008 and 2009.

　　By Wang Shibin

　　(July 6, PLA Daily)