Lo Jung-huan (1906-16 December 1963), political commissar in Chinese Communist military forces during the 1930's and 1940's, was director of the general political department and the general cadres department of the People's Liberation Army from 1950 to 1956. Hengshan, Hunan, was the birthplace of Lo Jung-huan. Little is known about his family background or early years except that his father may have been a grocer. After being graduated from a middle school in Changsha, Lo attended Sun Yat-sen University in Canton. In 1927 he joined the Young Communist League and the Chinese Communist party and went to the Wuhan area, where he participated in a Communist-led uprising in southern Hupeh. After this uprising failed, he joined a guerrilla band led by Mao Tse-tung and became a party representative in the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army. By mid- 1930 he had become a political commissar in the Fourth Red Army of Lin Piao (q.v.). Lin and Lo continued to be close associates until the mid-1950's. After Chu Teh (q.v.) became commander in chief of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army, Lin Piao succeeded him as commander of the First Army Group, with Lo Jung-huan as director of the political department. In this capacity, Lo made the Long March to Shensi in 1934-35. When the Chinese Communist forces in northwest China were reorganized as the Eighth Route Army, Lo became political commissar in Lin Piao's 115th Division. He held this post until the Sino-Japanese war ended in 1945. When Chinese Communist armies moved into Shantung in 1939, Lo also became commander and political commissar of the Shantung military district and secretary of the Shantung branch of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist party. In the final years of the war, when Lin Piao in effect had retired from active command of the 115th Division, Lo became its acting commander. At the Seventh National Congress of the Chinese Communist party, held in 1945, he was elected to the Central Committee. In 1946 Lo became deputy political commissar of Lin Piao's Northeast Democratic Alliance Army in Manchuria. The army was redesignated the Fourth Field Army in 1948, and it moved into the Peiping area and then into central and south China in 1949.

In 1949 Lo Jung-huan became -political commissar of the Peiping-Tientsin field headquarters of the People's Liberation Army, political commissar (under Lin Piao) of the Central-South Military Region, and second secretary of that region's Communist party bureau. He served the Central People's Government as procurator general and as a member of the Government Council and the political and legal affairs committee of the Government Administration Council. Beginning in 1950, he was the director of the general political department and the general cadres department of the People's Liberation Army, and from 1950 to 1953 he was political commissar of the Chinese People's Volunteers in Korea. During this period, he also served on the executive board of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association. After the Central People's Government was reorganized in 1954, Lo continued to serve as director of the general political department and the general cadres department of the People's Liberation Army until December 1956. Also in 1954 he became a delegate to the National People's Congress, vice chairman of its Standing Committee, and vice chairman of the National Defense Council; he was reelected to these posts in 1958. Lo was one of the ten military leaders who received the rank of marshal of the People's Republic of China in September 1955. A year later, he served on the presidium of the Eighth National Congress of the Chinese Communist party, at which he was reelected to the Central Committee and elected to its Political Bureau. He died in Peking on 16 December 1963.