Wu Shengli

Wu Shengli
吴胜利
Admiral Wu Shengli in 2009
7th Commander of the PLA Navy
In office August 2006 – January 2017
Political Commissar	Liu Xiaojiang Miao Hua
Preceded by	Zhang Dingfa
Succeeded by	Shen Jinlong
Commander of the South Sea Fleet
In office January 2002 – July 2004
Supreme Command	Jiang Zemin
Preceded by	Wang Yongguo
Succeeded by	Gu Wengen
President of Dalian Naval Academy
In office 1994–1997
Preceded by	Chen Qingji
Succeeded by	Zhang Zhannan
Personal details
Born	August 1945 (age 71) Wuqiao, Hebei, China
Alma mater	PLA Surveying and Mapping Academy Dalian Naval Academy
Military service
Allegiance	China
Service/branch	People's Liberation Army Navy
Years of service	1964–present
Rank	Admiral

Wu Shengli (Chinese: 吴胜利; born August 1945) is a Chinese admiral who served as Commander of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) from 2006 to 2017. Prior to that, he served as PLA's Deputy Chief of Staff, Commander of the South Sea Fleet, and President of Dalian Naval Academy.

Wu has presided over the PLAN during a time of expanding Chinese maritime interests and increased regional tensions. The PLAN has grown from a coastal defense force to an emerging expeditionary force. His tenure has been marked by a litany of achievements and historic firsts, including the PLAN's first deployment of a counter-piracy task force to the Gulf of Aden in 2008, the first evacuation of foreign nationals from a distant country during the 2011 Libyan Civil War, and the commissioning of China's first aircraft carrier in 2012.

Wu Shengli was born in Wuqiao, Hebei Province in August 1945. He is the son of Wu Xian (), who was a Red Army political commissar during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. The elder Wu later held important political positions during the Mao years, including mayor of Hangzhou and vice governor of Zhejiang Province. Due to his parentage, Wu Shengli is considered a "princeling" in Chinese political parlance.

Wu enlisted in the PLA Navy in August 1964, and joined the Communist Party of China at the same time. He earned a degree in oceanography from the PLA Surveying and Mapping Academy in 1966, just before the Cultural Revolution swept China and largely shut down the country’s higher education system. He did not attend naval officer training courses until 1972, when he began the captain's course at the Dalian Naval Academy.