首都师范大学
Zhang Yongyi was born in February 1950 in Haicheng, Liaoning Province, about 150 miles north of the port city of Dalian. He attended a flight academy of the Shenyang Military Region Air Force. He also holds a graduate degree in politics and law from Capital Normal University, making him one of only a few top PLA Navy leaders to have received a graduate degree from a civilian university.