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Chen Yi (陳毅, , 1901 - June 6 , 1972 ) was a Chinese Communist military commander and politician. He was born in Lezhi, near Chengdu , Sichuan , into a moderately wealthy magistrate's family. A comrade of Lin Biao from their guerilla days, Chen was a commander of the New Fourth Army during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) , spearheaded the Shandong counter-offensive during the Chinese Civil War , and later commanded the Communist armies that defeated the KMT forces at Huai-Hai and conquered the lower Yangtze region in 1948-49. He was made a Marshal of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1955 . After the founding of the People's Republic Of China , Chen became mayor of Shanghai . He also served as foreign minister from 1958 to 1972 and president of the China Foreign Affairs University from 1961 to 1969. During the Cultural Revolution , he was purged in 1967, but not officially dismissed, so Zhou Enlai performed the duties of foreign minister in his place. REFERENCE
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