Cai Xiao

Cai Xiao (; October 1919 – 11 January 1990) was a Chinese military officer and politician from Taiwan. He was involved in training the Third Field Army for deployment to Taiwan in 1949 and 1950. He served on the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and became chairman of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League.

Career Born in Japanese Taiwan, Cai moved to China and joined the New Fourth Army in 1937. Two years later, he became a formal member of the Chinese Communist Party. In May 1946, the CCP established the Taiwan Provincial Work Committee. Cai Xiao worked under the commission's secretary-general Cai Xiaoqian, training others in political warfare. In November 1949, Cai established the Taiwan Cadre Training Regiment under the 9th Corps of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Third Field Army for deployment to Taiwan.

Cai was jailed for nine years in the midst of the Cultural Revolution. Upon his political rehabilitation, Cai worked for the PLA General Political Department and General Logistics Department, becoming the GPD's deputy director in 1975.