Xing Shizhong

Xing Shizhong (; September 1938 – 11 March 2019) was a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He served as chief of staff and deputy commander of the Lanzhou Military Region and president of the PLA National Defence University (1995–2002). He was a member of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography Xing was born in September 1938 in Licheng, Shandong, Republic of China. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1953 and graduated from the PLA Nanjing Engineering Institute in 1956. He joined the Chinese Communist Party the following year.

Xing had a military career spanning 50 years. He argued that the idea of a rising power threatening the existing order maintained by an established power is rooted in Western imperialism. This logic is imposed on China by the West, whose imperialism is the real cause of instability in the world. He further argued that since the United States maintains a large network of military bases far from its homeland and tries to impose its own values on other nations, it has been and will continue to be a cause of conflicts in the world.