Ding Yiping
| Ding Yiping | |
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| 丁一平 | |
| Deputy Commander of the PLA Navy | |
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In office August 2006 – July 2014 |
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| Commander | Wu Shengli |
| Succeeded by | Du Jingchen |
| Chief of Staff of the PLA Navy | |
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In office December 2006 – December 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Sun Jianguo |
| Succeeded by | Su Shiliang |
| Commander of the North Sea Fleet | |
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In office December 2000 – June 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Zhang Dingfa |
| Succeeded by | Zhang Zhannan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 1951 (age 66) Xiangxiang, Hunan, China |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Alma mater | PLA Naval Command Academy |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 China
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| Service/branch | People's Liberation Army Navy |
| Years of service | 1968–2014 |
| Rank |
 Vice-Admiral
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Ding Yiping (Chinese: 丁一平; born February 1951) is a retired vice-admiral (zhong jiang) of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China. He served as Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the PLAN, and Commander of the North Sea Fleet. He was groomed to be the candidate for PLAN Commander, but was demoted following the fatal submarine 361 accident in 2003.
Ding Yiping was born in February 1951 in Xiangxiang, Hunan Province. He graduated from PLA Naval Command Academy. He is the son of Lieutenant General Ding Qiusheng (), the founding political commissar of PLAN's North Sea Fleet, and therefore considered a "princeling".
Ding enlisted in the PLA Navy in March 1968, and joined the Communist Party of China in February 1970. He spent most of his career in the North Sea Fleet of the Jinan Military Region, successively serving on the naval ships Kunming, Chengdu, and Changsha. He became captain of Changsha in the late 1970s.
In the 1980s, he served as chief of staff of a PLAN minesweeper branch (1983), commander of a frigate branch (1984), deputy commander of a guard command (1987), commander of a destroyer detachment (1989), and chief of staff of a naval base (January 1993). He was appointed President of Guangzhou Naval Academy in July 1993, and promoted to the rank of rear admiral the same month.
Ding was appointed chief of staff of the North Sea Fleet in January 1995 and deputy commander in December 1997. In December 2000, he was promoted to Commander of the North Sea Fleet and concurrently Deputy Commander of the Jinan Military Region. He was promoted to the rank of vice-admiral in July 2002. He was elected as an alternate member of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2002, and re-elected as an alternate member of the 17th Central Committee in 2007.
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