Yang Chengwu alias Yang Nengjun was a general of the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

. He was also a Proletarian Revolutionist and a military strategist of the People's Liberation Army

People's Liberation Army

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Yang was born in Changting County

Changting County

Changting , also known as Tingzhou or Tingchow, is a county in western Fujian province, the People's Republic of China. With a population of 480,000 and an area of 3,099 square kilometers, Changting is the fifth largest county in Fujian province...

, Fujian

Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

 Province of China on October 8, 1914.
He died on February 14, 2004 in Beijing, at the age of 90.

He was one the "Three Yang" in Chinese Military. (The other two were Yang Dezhi

Yang Dezhi

Yang Dezhi was a senior military officer in the North China Field Army, a veteran of the Korean War and commander in China during the Sino–Vietnamese War or Third Indochina War, a brief but bloody border war fought in 1979 between the China and the Vietnam...

and Yang Yong.)