# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zhang-tingfa
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:46.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zhang-tingfa"
name: "Zhang Tingfa"
slug: "zhang-tingfa"
description: "Zhang Tingfa was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and a major general of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). He served as Political Commissar and Commander of the PLAAF, and was a member of the Central Military Commission (CMC). He also served two terms as a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, before retiring in 1985. He fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Civil War, and the Korean War, and commanded the Chinese Air Force during the Sino-Vietnamese War."
tagline: "Chinese general"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zhang_Tingfa_1955.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1918-04-09"
deathDate: "2010-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.351045333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%A0%E5%BB%B7%E5%8F%91"
    title: "张廷发"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "تشانج تينجفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cang_Tching-fa"
    title: "Čang Tching-fa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Tingfa"
    title: "Zhang Tingfa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Tingfa"
    title: "Zhang Tingfa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Tingfa"
    title: "Zhang Tingfa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Ph%C3%A1t"
    title: "Trương Đình Phát"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q197289"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump