新中国开国之初,华东军政委员会主席是饶漱石。时为中共中央华东局第一书记、华东军区政委的饶漱石,论级别,当然是有资格充任此职的。然而,按当时的惯例,各大行政区军政委员会主席均应由各大军区或野战军司令员出任。中央人民政府主席毛泽东就曾两次提议由华东军区司令员兼第三 At the beginning of the founding of New China, the chairman of the East China Military and Political Committee was Rao Shouchu. When the first secretary of the East China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Rao Shushi, political commissar of the East China Military Region, on the level, of course, is eligible to fill this post. However, according to the practice at that time, the chairmen of military administration commissions of major administrative regions should all be commanders of major military regions or field army units. Chairman Mao Zedong of the Central People’s Government has twice proposed to be commander of the East China Military Region and third