Tang Liang (1910-1986) was originally named Tang Changxian, also known as Tang Changming. A native of Liuyang County, Hunan Province. In 1927, he joined the workers' picket team and the peasant Red Guard. He joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1930 and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he served as Propaganda and Culture Commissar of the Township Soviet Government, Political Commissar of the Sixth Regiment of the Second Division of the Third Red Army, Secretary of the General Branch of the Seventh Regiment, Director of the Political Department of the Directly Affiliated Corps, Political Commissar of the Sixth Regiment, and Organization of the Political Department of the Second Division. Section chief, political commissar of the 10th Regiment of the 4th Division, deputy director and director of the Political Department of the 2nd Division. Participated in the Long March. During the Anti-Japanese War, he served as chief of the Organization Section of the Political Department of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, political commissar of the teaching brigade, deputy director of the Political Department of the 344th Brigade, deputy director of the Political Department of the Second Column of the Eighth Route Army, director of the Political Department of the Hebei, Shandong and Henan Military Region, Shandong Binhai Military political commissar. During the War of Liberation, he served as deputy director of the Political Department of the Shandong Military Region, deputy director and director of the Political Department of the Shandong Field Army, deputy director of the Political Department of the East China Military Region, director of the Political Department of the East China Field Army and political commissar of the Third Corps, and director of the Political Department of the Third Field Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as deputy director, director and deputy political commissar of the Political Department of the East China Military Region, political commissar of the Nanjing Military Region, political commissar of the Military and Political University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and dean and political commissar of the Political College. He was awarded the rank of general in 1955. He was a member of the first, second, and third National Defense Commission, and an alternate member of the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He was elected as a member of the Central Advisory Committee at the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.