Cen Xu (Chinese: 岑旭; born August 1952) is a vice admiral (zhong jiang) of China's People's Liberation Army Navy.

[1] Little information is publicly known on Cen's career prior to July 2000, when he became political commissar of Navy Equipment Proving Research Center (海军装备论证研究中心), the PLA Navy's main institution for developing and testing weapons, ships, and other technical systems.

[1][2] The Hong Kong newspaper Ta Kung Pao has called Cen "a leader in naval scientific research and armaments."

Cen was appointed to the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the Chinese Communist Party's main organization responsible for monitoring the performance of CCP members, and policing them for breaches in CCP regulations and discipline.

[2] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Government.